
PDFify 4+
Text Recognition & PDF Tools
Dirk Holtwick
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
PDFify creates searchable PDF for more than 100 languages. Now also as PDF/A-2u, popular for long-term archiving. PDFify can also reduce the file size.
Not only existing PDF can be converted into searchable PDF, but also images, scans, screenshots, emails, web pages and more. Just drag your files to PDFify and the rest happens automatically.
Batch processing: Finder Quick Actions allow you to quickly process multiple files in one go:
- Create searchable PDF
- Convert to PDF/A
- Optimize PDF size
Powerful functions make it easy to add new pages to the PDF:
- Intuitive scanner dialog
- Use your iPhone camera as a scanner
- Take screenshots directly from the app
- Choose PDFify as destination for your ScanSnap scans
- Paste pages directly from the clipboard
PDFify is completed by other useful features:
- Have the computer read the content aloud
- Optimization of the file size through three-stage compression of the PDF file
- Copy all text content with one click
- Share, save or print the finished PDF
- Overwrite the existing file or create a new one when performing Quick Actions
- optional faster display of a linearized PDF on the web, which is optimized for fast display on the Internet
- Display in original size or limited to DIN A4 or US letter
- UNDO function to undo work steps
In addition to Apple's integrated text recognition Apple Vision, the proven alternative "Tesseract" is also supported.
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You can view our terms of use at https://pdfify.app/en/license.
What’s New
Version 4.0
- Saving PDF/A-2u
- Conversion to PDF/A also as a quick action
- Faster display on the web by linearized PDF
- Standardized maximum page size
- Correct sorting when importing multiple files
Ratings and Reviews
Did exactly what I needed it to do.
I had a scanned file in PDF form that I wanted to convert into searchable text. Simple, right? Apparently not. The document was too large for most online services, and those that would accept the size of the document were painfully slow (to the point I wasn’t even sure they were working). Adobe Acrobat Reader has this feature, except it requires a full subscriptioe and I don’t want to pay for an entire subscription service just for this single document.
So I decided to try the app store. It seemed most other apps that would accomplish this task are paid apps only. At first I overlooked this one because it didn’t have enough ratings to display anything under its icon in the app store. Out of desperation, I guess, I eventually clicked on it for more info. Sounded primising. So I downloaded it and gave it a shot. It worked *beautifully*. I am so glad I came across this app. And it’s FREE. Would recommend. 5/5.
Color me impressed
It’s a free app, so expectations should be low; many on the Mac app store charge quite a bit for OCR functionalty. The scanner works perfectly using the standard MacOS scanner interface. The OCR works fast, but as the developer notes, it may choke on some large files - I tried to OCR a 57 page PDF. What impressed me most was a scan of a rumpled receipt that I did to test other OCR programs. This app recognized far more of it than the other ones I tried. It also did a great job with a short scanned letter. Highly recommend for simple scanning and OCR. Also glad to see this free app doesn’t require Catalina.
This one worked!
This is the fifth OCR program I downloaded from App Store today. I had a typed 96 page PDSF document to convert. This is the only program that finally worked. Really great accuracy. I was satisfied enough to buy the Pro version. No complaints so far. Thanks for helping me get my work done.
App Privacy
The developer, Dirk Holtwick, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Dirk Holtwick
- Size
- 15.1 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.14 or later.
- Languages
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English, German
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Dirk Holtwick, holtwick.de
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Monthly Subscription $0.99
- Lifetime License $29.99
- Yearly Subscription $9.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.