The OCR Software Blog

The document productivity vendor Nitro Software has acquired the document software technology PDFpen for $6 million. PDFpen is a suite of PDF productivity applications for Apple Mac, iPhone and iPad devices, including digital signatures, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), PDF editing and cloud storage.

The technology was acquired from US-based Smile Inc., which also sells communications software platform TextExpander. This is a funny coincidence, since, without knowing about the acquisition, our RPA software team reviewed TextExpander earlier today in its Mac Desktop Automation blog post.

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This updates brings the abilitiy to generate searchable PDF to OCR Engine2. Searchable PDF are sometimes called Sandwich PDF because they contain two layers: The original PDF and a second layer with the OCR’ed text.

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Our popular on-premise OCR software received a major update: OCR Engine 2 is now integrated in the offline version of the OCR.Space OCR API.

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We updated our OCR Engine 2 with full PDF OCR support, including auto-rotation and receipt OCR. And while we are at it, we also improved the processing speed of the engine 2.

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The February 2020 update adds WebP to the list of supported image files for image ocr. The supported image formats are PNG, JPG, GIF, TIFF and WebP now. And of course PDF for document OCR. But wait… what is WebP?

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