OCR stands for “ Optical Character Recognition” and it is how a computer (or iPad) converts a picture of a document into a fully searchable PDF file.
If I don’t do this, I just have a pretty picture of a document which I can read with human eyeballs, but it’s just a picture to the iPad. That is, the app will do its best job at optically recognizing the characters of text so that the resulting PDF is searchable. I snap the picture (or “scan”) the document and now both apps will automatically OCR the document. So let me explain … If someone hands me a piece of paper, and I want to “scan it” with my iPhone or iPad, I go straight to Scanner Pro or Scanbot (usually Scanbot). Now, there are several apps for “scanning” documents with the iPhone & iPad – in fact, I recently reviewed Scanner Pro from Readdle and if you are scanning a paper document from scratch, then I absolutely recommend using Scanner Pro or the excellent Scanbot app (review coming soon).īut I still keep PDFpen Scan+ on my iPhone and iPad for one specific reason – to OCR non-searchable PDFs that I already have, or that were e-mailed to me.
#Smile on my mac pdfpen for mac#
I am a big fan of Smile Software and their PDFpen software for Mac and apps for iOS (as well as their time-saving TextExpander apps, and I wanted to talk about their “scanning” app called PDFpen Scan+. Today’s app is PDFpen Scan+ from Smile Software, a universal app for both the iPhone and iPad at $6.99, and requires iOS 8.0 and higher.
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