PDFpen Scan+ with OCR, PDF text export


What's New
Bug fix...
Size:
18.9 MB
Category:
Business
OS:
iOS
Developer:
SmileOnMyMac, LLC
Price:
$4.99
Compatible:
Requirements:
Version:
1.0

Description - PDFpen Scan+ with OCR, PDF text export

SmileOnMyMac, LLC , the publisher behind many iOS app (TextExpander 3 + custom keyboard ,PDFpen 2 - Highlight, Markup, Edit, Fill & Sign PDF docs ,PDFpen ,PDFpenPro 8 ,PDFpen Scan+ with OCR, PDF text export ,TextExpander + Keyboard), brings PDFpen Scan+ with OCR, PDF text export with a number of new features along with the usual bug fixes. PDFpen Scan+ with OCR, PDF text export app has been update to version 1.0 with several major changes and improvements. App release that improves performance, provides several new options.
HIGHLIGHTS
  • PDFpen Scan+ is very useful for scanning paper documents..
  • please consider adding support for password protected PDF files..

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Overall Satisfactionc69
Best of Class.
Ease of Usec45
but I hope the developers make the app easier to use and more intuitive.
Reliabilityc20
Security & Privacyc69

just in case you want to print your scan.found in 2 reviews
without going through a cloud service like Evernote.found in 3 reviews
Great Tool for Professionals.found in 1 reviews
Thank you Smile for another home run for the home team.found in 1 reviews
Digging it so far.found in 1 reviews
PDFpen Scan+ is very useful for scanning paper documents.found in 7 reviews
Smile knocks it out of the park.found in 1 reviews
Best of Class.found in 1 reviews
Exceeds all expectations.found in 1 reviews
Really looking for a good product that does this.found in 1 reviews
I use it in conjunction with filemaker to scrap text from pdf files.found in 1 reviews
I don't use OCR but for travel receipts this replaces a scanner.found in 1 reviews
address book option for business cards missing.found in 1 reviews
The button icons are often confusing and hold many unrelated options.found in 1 reviews
If there were some way to combine these.found in 1 reviews
I have had some trouble with the app crashing.found in 1 reviews
Edge detection doesn't work as well as other scan apps.found in 3 reviews
but they seriously need to look for a new usability expert.found in 1 reviews
Unfortunately it crashes all the time on my iPhone 4S.found in 1 reviews
And the basic advertised featured just don't work on iOS 7.found in 1 reviews
Good app that needs streamlining.found in 1 reviews
This app is highly unstable.found in 1 reviews
PDF scanner with OCR that needs more automation.found in 1 reviews
cropping with a finger is hugely frustrating.found in 1 reviews
Good but needs some refinements.found in 1 reviews
The main problem right now is that there are far.found in 1 reviews
until they make significant improvements.found in 1 reviews
Seriously flawed.found in 1 reviews
please consider adding support for password protected PDF files.found in 1 reviews
Missing a lot of common features.found in 1 reviews
But then again I feel that way about most of Smile's apps.found in 1 reviews
Cannot complete multi-page document OCR without repeated crashes.found in 1 reviews
Total flop.found in 1 reviews
But the OCR just isn't up to the promise.found in 1 reviews
Cannot select multiple photos in a document.found in 1 reviews
1 star until they can get edge detection working as promised.found in 8 reviews
My experience is that the app is completely unusable.found in 1 reviews
totally broken.found in 1 reviews
Cannot batch proces multiple images.found in 2 reviews
This app would crash when I tried to open it.found in 1 reviews

The PDFpen Scan+ with OCR, PDF text export is now available for $4.99 for iOS owners. The application is designed for use in English language. It weighs in at only 18.9 MB to download. The new PDFpen Scan+ with OCR, PDF text export app version 1.0 has been updated on 2014-11-28.
More Info: Find more info about PDFpen Scan+ with OCR, PDF text export in SmileOnMyMac, LLC`s Official Website : http://www.smilesoftware.com/PDFpen/Scan


With PDFpen Scan+, use your iPhone or iPad to scan and OCR multi-page documents to create searchable PDFs. Scan directly with your iPhone or iPad camera. Crop and enhance the scan. Perform OCR. Copy OCR ...
Using screenshot of web site for comparison accuracy of Abbyys textgrabber is much higher than this app which also performs OCR offline Its a pity since this app is capable to import PDF file for OCR and then export result to PDF file which is a fantastic feature           OCR result for CJK alphabet is lower than expected
I hate to give anything one star However this app has lost the last three pdfs Ive created and they are absolutely crucial documents The app will not let me open Documents as if there are none there while iCloud Drive has the majority of my documents but is missing the three most recent ones This is a terrible disappointment and is going to cause a huge headache to retrace steps to find receipts This is also the first time Ive felt strongly enough to to write a review Just terrible experience And no I am not using a beta of iOS 9     PDFs missing app lost documents in iCloud
I bought this so that I could use the OCR It doesnt work as well as I hoped I have to do extensive editing in order to recreate documents I wouldve saved my money if I could have     Not great
I have used Prizmo for years but I much prefer Smiles customer support I also like the integration with pdfpen I am very happy with this app              Works very well
As others have said the OCR feature is about the only reason to buy this app until they make significant improvements For example cropping with a finger is hugely frustrating           Has a long way to go
Its useless crash all the time     Crash
The essential scanning and ocr functions of the app work but the workflow is awkward and not well thought out Secondly the app has serious responsiveness issues ie is slow at times which makes it difficult to determine if the button you pressed worked or not There are also quite a few bugs sharing over dropbox eg didnt work for me first time Sharing a pdf through email never did        needs polishing a lot of it
Says I have to enable camera access even though I have done this already Cant use the app at all Customer support says theyre working on it     Wont Open totally broken
I found the OCR feature of this app to be quite disappointing Given an image of printed text not only did the text produced by the OCR function contain many errors but parts of the original text were completely ignored by the OCR process The net result was that the number of corrections required was so numerous that typing the text completely by hand may have been a better option To emphasize this was for plain black type on a white background The OCR results were even worse when there were colors or graphics in the background of the text     Disappointing OCR
Works great on my iPhone 6 plus I like that I can scan things and organize them in folders It does OCR too so i can export the test to edit it or send it to email Feature request I would like to see a bounding box around the paper that I am scanning when I hold the phone over the paper before I take the photo There are other app that will recognize the edges so I dont have to crop manually Its easy enough to crop in the app but I would love to see that as a feature in a future release                 Useful app
Ive used Smile software for a long time on my Mac PDFpen Scan is another fine tool from them I reported an issue with this software and a bug with iPhone 6 and they got back immediately and just days later I see this update on the app store which fixes the issue I had Nice work                 Great support very useful app
Lightweight fast accurate The iCloud integration is well implemented I love being able to scan a document and have the PDF show up on my mac within seconds with full text search select and copy                 Best PDF Scanner Ive Found
A large part of my job is sending in paperwork from the field this app saves me hours I get the document go back to my car scan it with Scan email it and off to the next appointment                 Hours saved
The app works well and I find myself using it more and more It will even open zipped PDFs I downloaded a bunch of them from a website using safari mobile The app powered through each with no sweat              Works great
The app claims to do a lot of things for a reasonable amount of money Unfortunately it crashes all the time on my iPhone 4S        Crashes Regularly
It would be great if this app did what it claims but its OCR function the primary reason I bought it is wretched Its back to Acrobat Pro or ABBYY Fine Reader for me     Total flop
Awaiting a response from customer support It tells me to enable privacy settings for the camera but this app is not listed in privacy settings     Doesnt work
Looks promising but it crashes constantly on my iPhone 4S        Constant Crashes
My iPhone 5s crashed this week before I did my July expense reports I scan and dispose of my receipts when I get them When I reinstalled the app and reactivated iCloud drive all my PDF files were there to download to the app                 Saved my bacon
Edge detection for unusually sized documents eg scanning pages of a book needs to be a bit streamlinedfaster Its very tedious to deal with 20 nonstandard pages Also it would be nice if you could preset the color eg blackwhite so you dont have to do it each time on each page After further use and comparison I have concluded that this app has much to learn from ScanBot The OCR capabilities are great here but ScanBot excels at scanning documents quickly and with better edge detect and snapping The whole process is much more streamlined        Works Well Needs Some Improvements
havent tried multiple docs but it looks like 7 wasted crashes running ocr on a small page of text ill try some more docs to see if it gets better and if so ill update the review but im less than pleased based on the first try of the app     crashes on running ocr
Not ready for release Cannot complete multipage document OCR without repeated crashes This occurs with latest IOS update and both Ipad Air and Mini Retina     Repeated crashes
Great app Makes scanning almost effortless                 Once again Smile knocks it out of the park
Ive used t Expander and pdfpen for years with love thus expected better from the companys ocr app The ocr performance is horrible even under nearoptimum conditions compared to competing apps prizmo or Abby and even if you let go of OCR the app is way too clunky to use as a scanneruploader app Most things you can do with a swipe tap in apps like scanbot or Readdle Scanner pro take several taps and some waiting time with this one Wont be using the app unless a fundamental update arrives in the future     Disappointing
I get the functionality concept but until the OCR improves its very difficult to recommend this app Even imported PDF documents the OCR scan misses a lot of the content I love the idea of this app and will continue to use it hoping that the scanning improves           I get it
Scan quality is great and the app usability is very simple to figure out Love Smiles work and am excited to see them continue to develop and improve this app                 Makes me Smile
Good at what it does Selecting area to crop is a bit too tricky              Great
Crashes when using OCR Cannot batch proces multiple images Cannot select multiple photos in a document The app lags occasionally I am using ipad 4 Only one I like was the edge detection Nothing else I wasted my dollar     Disappointed
This program was recently upgraded and now I love it The scanning process now gives you easytoadjust handles to change the borders of your scan It also gives you different paper sizes just in case you want to print your scan You dont want your receipt blown up to an 85x11 full page picture I was using the original version but I wasnt crazy about it This version is a winner                 Great upgrade
The scanning with the iPhone camera in this app saves me a ton of time now that it automatically crops your document and takes the photo for you I also love how I can automatically set a default folder in drop box for saving Both these features are huge to me and save me a ton of time The OCR is also awesome                 This app saves me time
Dont waste your money I tried this app for school and its not user friendly at all Not to mention it freezes all the time and does not save my work as I go Notability is cheaper and more user friendly     Freezes a lot
I dont use OCR but for travel receipts this replaces a scanner Cropping is difficult and it crashes once in a while              Great for scanning receipts
Scans are not what I had expected     Disappointing
Im a developer Recently a client handed me a stack of content that he wanted me to transcribe and put on his website Honestly he didnt pay me near enough to do that This App saved the day It works perfectly Worth every penny                 Shocked and Happy
Just installed PDFpen Scan OCR Ive been waiting for an app with InApp true OCR capabilities for years In testing the functionality of this app Ive only come across a few issues so far which are not major issues that would prevent me from using your great app 1 Documents created with OCR in PDFpen Scan OCR and Opend In the Adobe PDF app only display the first page and then locks up the Adobe Reader app Sliding between pages in Adobe only displays the first page and subsequent pages are blank Also the Adobe Reader app will not display the menus or allow closing of the document This may be more of an issue with Adobe Reader than PDFpen Scan as I did not have any issues with several other iPad apps when displaying the same document The document I was trying to view in Reader had been OCR rendered in PDFpen Scan 2 Documents sent to PDFpen Scan OCR from other apps with Open In functions which already have a rendered text overlay PDFpen strips off the existing OCR text You can reOCR the document so this may be intentional but I thought Id mention it It may be useful to see the original rendered text to compare it to the OCR results obtained by this apps engine 3 When importing documents from other apps to PDFpen Scan that are password protected the document pages import but are blank The app should allow you to enter your password and then import the document I would like to see support for password encrypted documents in PDFpen Scan I have a number of documents that Ive scanned or saved with other apps that are password protected and stored in Evernote and Google Drive Theyve never been OCRd I would like the ability to import these OCR the document and then resave or export the document with password protection The competitors DocScan HD app doesnt provide inapp OCR rendering but does support importing of password protected PDF documents A few of the PDF editing programs do allow you to add password protection to documents and then save or export them but that creates a twostep process To the developement team please consider adding support for password protected PDF files both while importing and exporting documents from this app Also please work with Adobe to figure out what the document compatibility issues are between your app and theirs Finally adding WiFi access to the PDFpen Scan OCR document library would be helpful as another option for moving files between the scanning device and a computer I know youve implemented iCloud sharing for this but having WiFi would also provide additional capability between nonApple devices eg Windows a Web Browser without going through a cloud service like Evernote Dropbox or Google Drive Thank you for filling a long standing void in this scanner app marketplace by providing True InApp OCR functionality Ill be looking forward to your future improvements and updates EM              Works Great Only A Few Issues
Ive used Scanbot Scanner Pro 6 and JotNot Scanner and PDFScan is the best                 Best of the scantoPDF apps
I own Text Expander and Ive been very happy with that program from Smile Software The OCR app however simply doesnt work Using both screen grabs and document photos the app was unable to accurately OCR English text Even when the document was cropped to a specific text area the app missed complete sentences and words and in some cases inserted line breaks after every word My experience is that the app is completely unusable     It simply doesnt work
This app is one of the best for scanning I use it all of the time for receipts However with the last update every time I scan something new and I go to find the edges the entire screen is black I have restarted my phone and tried everything but the same situation all black Now this app is unusable Please fix Thank you                 Great App
The OCR functionality changed the way I do business I use it in conjunction with filemaker to scrap text from pdf files It took a normally 30 minute processes down to 1 minute This is a must have app to add to your arsenal of productivity apps especially when using it to quickly pull information out of PDFs I cant wait to see what these guys do next                 Changed the way I do business
Yup the above reviews are correct It tells me to allow the camera to use the app under the privacy settings When I go to the settings its not listed there There is no way to use the app other than to take the picture first and then open it up in the app This of course creates images in my camera roll of various documents so I have to go back in and delete them When they resolve this issue I will review this app again but right now stay away from this app Its too bad Ive always thought Smile made quality products I hope this is just an isolated incident and theyll get it fixed promptly     Shouldve read a review first
I love Smile textexpander so I had high hopes But the OCR just isnt up to the promise Ive tried several different scenarios from scanning my own to importing PDFs scanned by others and theres too much gibberish It also takes a long time to OCR existing docs about a minute per page which means a half hour for a standard academic article I so want to like this app but for now I cant recommend it     High hopes but
First of all this is not just an app but a part of a thought through ECOsystem just like Apples I bought this app together with TextExpander and Pdfpen to read and annotate PDFs files Earlier I bought two other pdfapps for scanning but this is the one I will keep for five main reasons It scans exact and automatic when it focused the area you want to scan No need to press any buttons to take a shot It performs an EXCELLENT OCR It is STABILE and robust Does NOT freeze like my other apps Others have reported some bugs but they must be fixed now I have not had one single freeze or problem in five days of constant use Theapp has an outstanding support staff really willing and able to help you out Not just the standard nice to etc but just like Apple So buy it it is a bargain and the sync with iCloud Drive and the main Pdfpen 7 PRO for Mac and the Pdfpen2 for iOS is just excellent If I should try to find something negative it must be the color of the app screaming orange                 Best scanning pdf app with OCR
Trying to decide between this app and ABBYYs TextGrabber                 Digging it so far
This app is highly unstable and crashes a ton like smiles other app PDF pen I want to love it but on my iPad air its far too unstable to recommend especially at five dollars        Crashes all the time
I have had some trouble with the app crashing Also Ive had some of the resultant PDFs inexplicably cropped losing data Otherwise solid app              Decent but backup often
The functionality is there for this app It does what its supposed to and I use it regularly for scanning documents The OCR isnt great but its better than nothing My biggest complaint is the UI and workflow is just odd Sharing isnt where you expect it to be and buttons in general are a bit confusing But then again I feel that way about most of Smiles apps Great engineers subpar UI team              Very good but needs UI work
I previously gave this app a poor review but it has become my preferred business document scanning app You have to manually go through each step of cropping and scan type colorBWGS for each scan but these features work almost flawlessly much better than the popular Scanner Pro This app has multiple backup and share options File naming is the one slow down to workflow and minus one star for that I did try the OCR function and it seemed to work pretty well Maybe OCR is the prime feature of this app but it is not the main reason that I purchased the app              PDF scanner with OCR that is getting better
Every time I use my AMEX I have to save the receipt I just scan it OCR it and save it for my expense report Then I trash the original receipt The iCloud integration is great                 Great Scanner
While traveling or just out and about this is invaluable for those that either need to keep records or are digital record hoarders like myself Easily scanning something is great but the ability to use OCR while doing so is wonderful Then just upload it to something like Dropbox and handle these rest when youre home Used it for travel receipts on my last business trip and loved how quickly it made filing receipts                 Great for document triage
I almost never take the time to review apps The update to PDF scan is so stunningly good I had to review it This turns a very useful app into a jawdropping app You will not regret paying for this app Page cropping and multi column scanning are improved by several orders of magnitude The accuracy of the OCR is much better than desktop OCR was just for five years ago                 This is a musthave app


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