Unfortunately Adobe Acrobat Professional isexpensive at full price (about $300 I think). A cheaper less powerful option (about $50) is PDFPen 4 which has an OCR function built in. Its fine for short documents, but on long documents the slow place is very noticeable. DevonThink Pro Office has a better OCR function, and a 150 hour fully functional demo, but is about $150. None of these 3 is a dedicated OCR application, so you're paying for functions you may not want. For example, PDFPen does little that isn't already done by Skim.
ReadIris, on the other hand, is a dedicated OCR app ($130) but some people - me included - have serious problems with it (eg see: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14235/readiris-pro) . mf On 18 Jan 2009, at 00:00, Alex Hamann wrote: > > On 17.01.2009, at 22:33, Noam A. Osband wrote: > >> Well, if there is nothing good that's free, does anyone have a >> suggestion for a good OCR program for my Mac? The main thing I need >> it for is converting PdF files I have on my computer into the kind >> of PdF where I can do things like highlight and underline. >> >> thanks, >> noam >> > > > Hi Noam, > > this is not an expert's opinion but Adobe Acrobat Professional does a > decent job in the most recent version. I am not sure whether you can > find a Mac version of Abby Fine Reader but its OCR is good. I had to > work with it for some time performing ocr on quite difficult prints. > With computer generated files the ocr capabilities do not have to be > highly advanced, though. > HTH, > > Alex > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > SourcForge Community > SourceForge wants to tell your story. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword > _______________________________________________ > Skim-app-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
