is an application dedicated to OCR, which allows you to create fully searchable PDF, rich text file, HTML and plain text files from your scanned OCR documents. PDFelement Pro for Mac (10.15 Catalina included) PDFelement Pro. Here we look at some of the leading examples. When all is said and done, though, as long as people rate the software according to its abilities, and not to the pricing policies of the vendor (which are very much open to comment, but not a rating, I believe), then this place should continue to work just fine. There is a wide choice of free OCR software available. Why not list the paid version, but say that there's also a free version that only does a single page at a time, for example? But it's a bit back-to-front ethically, for me. It feels a bit like an attempt to hook you on the free version so that you'll feel compelled to pay up for the greater capabilities of the paid one. PDF OCR X Community is a simple drag-and-drop utility that converts single-page PDFs and images into text documents or searchable PDF files, it supports for. I must admit, I do feel that this particular sales tactic is less than ideal. I don't want to buy into the discussion about free versus paid versions at a vitriolic level, but I would like to suggest that it might be ethical for software developers to name their packages in ways that show potential users what they're getting into.įor example, the use of LE to show that a program is a 'light' or 'limited' version is usually fairly clear to anyone who's been using computers for a while.
