PDF OCR X Community Edition App Reviews

Ive downloaded the app twice, the second time after the first didnt work, but without success. The app fails to open with a double-click, nor when a (one-page) pdf or jpeg is dragged & dropped on the icon. I have to give it a minimum rating, unless theres a way around this...

won’t work on documents with >1 pages..

The app extracted text from a scanned document. A few words here and there were mixed-up, but overall it saved me a ton of time on a project. Use it fr extracting words from images and pdf into Text files. Thank you developer! Video Doc Productions - Pittsburgh Dec. 2013

Can’t covert even very legible text from screen captures at a reasonable rate. At lest 50% of the words are gibberish. Embarassing. Don’t waste your time.

Crappy - not useful at all since it converts the 1st page ONLY of a PDF file

It could not read a screen shot. The whole converted text was basically unreadable. The image that I had it process was very clear, but it still could not recognize probably 65% of the text. Try something else.

Very poor OCR from screenshots. Basically doesnt work. Returns gibberish text.

First, ignore the reviewers that complained that this application only scans one page. It says that *in the description*. If you like the quality it produces on one page and youd like it to do multiple pages, then pay to upgrade to the professional or enterprise version. I like very much that the application can output the results to a PDF that includes the OCRed text. I was using it only with PDF source documents, but after reading the reviews here, I tried using an image, made from a screen capture. It took a PNG file and produced a PDF with the text in it. Contrary to the other reviewers comments that it doesnt work well with screen captures or other images, I thought it worked fairly well. Depending on the text, it didnt recognize spaces and some formatting, but that could happen with any source document. I found that it requires a very high resolution source document in order to produce just mediocre results. If the text is a little less than perfect, the quality drops off quickly. I used it to OCR some W-2 tax forms. The forms were made up of boxes that contain a label in small print and a value in larger print. The proximity of the two sizes of print were enough to really confuse the application. In many cases, it recognized only the small print and not the larger. For the most part, this free application is at least worth what I paid for it: nothing. It might do a lot better if source documents were higher quality. I would need to do some experimentation to verify that, though. I rarely do OCR and not much of it, so this was good enough for now. If my needs change, I would have to evaluate this application more closely to decide whether to purchase the full application. I forgot to mention, I wish the application would save the results file to the same folder as the original. As it is now, the user must specify a single output folder for all results.

If you want to scan more than one page you have to buy the full edition. Which wouldn’t bother me if it worked at all. When trying to use OCR on scanned PDFs there are so many errors that you may as well just re-type the entire document yourself. It would be faster.

Figured it was free so worth a try before trying the multiple page version. It crashed while trying to process a simple file created by image capture and deleted the file. Fortunatly I have the origional.

I used the program to convert a scanned page of text. Some hand corrections had been made, and those did cause some confusion. OCR software has never worked 100% for me, so I am used to some fixups required. Making some easy corrections to a one-page document hasn’t been as much trouble as retyping an entire document. This program worked for me today, and I was able to finish quickly what I wanted to do, so it was a win for me. I think this program is not polished enough to compete in the OCR software business as a paid app, and at this point it is more of a toy, but it did the job today.

Sure, there were a couple of errors, but looking at my source, which was a scan of a CD booklet in something close to Times New Roman in very small font, it was pretty obvious why the software messed up. I haven’t tried any other software and am not going to bother. Yes, when you use it for free, it only does one page at a time as it clearly states, but that is so you can try it out and see if it works for you.

It successfully translated 2 images correctly (with columns!) but then starting with the 3rd document, it just spewed out gibberish — 0’s and H’s. So, it definitely has potential but I can’t seem to get it to work anymore.

Well it did work, even on a jpeg file. And it was fairly accurate for text that was very clear. But just not what I need. If you need just a few simple pages done this coud be the program for you.

Doesn’t work…. not much else to say…… ununstalled and moved on…..

First try, total flop on converting some very easy to digest text that was generated by a computer in the first place. No good. Waste of time. But hey, at least it was free to find out that it isn’t worth buying. cheers.

I used this to grab text off a PDF that wasn’t copying to my clipboard when I tried to move it out of the document. This did exactly what I’d hoped it would and did so quickly and easily.

Doesn’t work, free version can only do one page and it can’t even do that!

four stars for the difficulty to download other language packs! I have tried more than 5 times, and finally I gave up. you just cann’t download the packs.