Scanning, OCR and straightening is done on multiple pages in parallel and you can even reorder or delete pages while PDFScanner is still working

Fully automatic straightening of crooked pages (deskew).

Intuitive and fast user interface to reorder and delete pages.

Supported OCR languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish and Finnish.

Optical character recognition to make the document searchable, allow to find it via Spotlight and other search tools or copy the text.

This feature requires your Mac and iOS device to be logged in with the same iCloud account and the 'Handoff' feature to be activated on both devices. Perspective correction is done on device and with adequate lighting the quality comes close to using a real scanner.

Direct scanning with the iPhone or iPad camera.

Support for all scanners that are supported by the macOS Image Capture application (please check that using the scanner in Image Capture works before purchasing to be sure).

Use the included Automator action to create custom OCR workflows or folder actions.

Super high compression for monochrome scans (usually < 50kb per page including OCR text).

Save as a PDF file with an invisible text layer that can be selected and copied.

Scan, Deskew, Crop and OCR with one click.

The intuitive user interface lets you start scanning right away.

PDFScanner has been created with one simple task in mind: Scanning and archiving documents as quick and easy as possible, and making them findable with Spotlight search. Most of them are however complex, slow or not really suited for scanning documents or letters.

There are many applications for macOS that allow scanning of images or text.

Text scanner mac