You'd expect Adobe Acrobat Pro DC to be great because it comes from Adobe, the birthplace of the portable document format. Amateurish and cluttered UI feels unfinished That said, editing recognized text is not as easy as editing text in a non-scanned document. If it's the former, the application asks whether you want it to recognize the text on the page.Įven with large documents topping 400 pages, PDFpenPro handled text recognition seamlessly in a matter of minutes, making the text searchable and editable. When you open an existing PDF file in PDFpenPro, the application automatically detects whether the document you're working with is a scanned image or already contains selectable text. The application's OCR tools are rock-solid. Additionally, you can create PDFs from scratch, create or edit forms, and create tables of contents for your PDF documents. With full PDF-document editing, you can make changes to text and replace images in PDF documents. PDFpenPro is a standout for Mac users thanks to its solid features, not the least of which is an excellent OCR engine.
(That version, PDFpen, is available for iOS devices as well as Macs.) It's also available in a less expensive version with fewer editing options. PDFpenPro is a macOS-only PDF editor that's been available for many years.
