pretty good given the price

It’s pretty good given the price. Of course, to be truly useful, one would need to pay up for the enterprise version to process more than 1 page at a time.

Some suggestions:

1) the OCR tends to miss some bold faced characters consistently - I tested on several different pages with the word “Annual” in bold and they all did not show up in the text output. In another example, a few intances of bold faced acronym “ECB” did not show up.

2) it would be be nice if the searchable pdf will highlight all instances of a particular word. Not sure if this is Preview’s problem of this app’s but in one occasion only the first “lifecycle” showed up in the search when there are 2 others on the page despite the text output has all 3 words

3) text oriented sideways (say a landscape page of text rotated left to show up as portrait) do not get recognized at all - this would be useful. I know, in a single page situation I could have rotated it first but in real life if I were to ocr many pages that becomes a bother

4) chinese (traditional) ocr can be improved - although the tests I threw at this app were more challenging because they were jpegs of newspaper clippings. Even then, it would really be nice if it can work better than the ~30% hit rate I observed

quatrieme about PDF OCR X Community Edition, v2.0.8