PDFpen 4 adds OCR and Word importing

SmileOnMyMac has released a major update to PDFpen, their PDF editing software which we examined at a while back. PDFpen allows you to edit PDFs to fill out forms (e.g. scans of existing forms), mark-up documents, etc. The biggest new feature for version 4 is the inclusion of basic OCR functionality that will turn a scanned document into editable text. In addition there is support for new file formats including importing Microsoft Word documents.

PDFpen comes in two versions, a basic version for editing PDFs and a pro version that also allows you to create editable forms (i.e. forms that can be filled out by users with a PDF reader like Acrobat or Preview). PDFpen is $49.95 (or $99.95 for the pro version). Upgrades for to version 4 from previous version are $25. Demos for both standard and pro are available for download.

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Jean MacDonald

@Mike: That's right. Folks who purchased PDFpen on or after June 1, 2008 get the upgrade at no charge.

@Jash We do have a 30% educational discount for students and teachers. http://store.esellerate.net/somm/education

- Jean / SmileOnMyMac

September 19 2008 at 3:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jash Sayani

Mac apps are getting really expensive !

September 19 2008 at 7:00 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

craig

FormulatePro, which although still in beta, is a great free solution I've used for some time now to fill out pdfs:
http://code.google.com/p/formulatepro

September 19 2008 at 5:14 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Quine

I may give this another go, but version 3 was so insanely buggy for me it was unusable. Textfields suddenly became un-editable, any text box over 50 characters or so crashed the program, and many other such annoyances.

September 19 2008 at 3:00 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mike

I just bought PDFpen 2 weeks ago from the Apple Store. When I checked for updates, I was able to get 4.0 at no charge.

September 18 2008 at 10:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply