What's new in PDF OCR X 3.0.37
Jan 29, 2024
- Fixed hanging on very large (>1000page) PDFs.
New in PDF OCR X 3.0.30 (Nov 20, 2020)
- This version includes bug fixes related to Big Sur compatibility.
New in PDF OCR X 3.0.28 (Oct 15, 2019)
- Fixed issue with blank output on input files not from scanned sources
New in PDF OCR X 3.0.27 (Oct 11, 2019)
New in PDF OCR X 3.0.25 (May 22, 2019)
- Fixed some out of memory issues when converting larger PDFs.
New in PDF OCR X 3.0.10 (Dec 4, 2018)
- Fixed issue with rotated PDFs not being laid out properly when doing searchable PDF output.
New in PDF OCR X 3.0.9 (Dec 4, 2018)
- Fixed issue with incorrect resolution and aspect ratio when running conversion on image files.
New in PDF OCR X 3.0.8 (Dec 4, 2018)
- Improved searchable PDF output file size, and image quality.
New in PDF OCR X 3.0.6 (Nov 19, 2018)
- Fixed crashing on startup in Yosemite (Mac OS X 10.10)
- Extended support back as far as 10.8 (Mountain Lion)
New in PDF OCR X 3.0.5 (Nov 19, 2018)
- Fixed issue with auto-repair function stripping embedded text from searchable PDFs. Auto-repair will now be skipped in cases where it may strip the searchable text.
New in PDF OCR X 3.0.4 (Nov 9, 2018)
- Added ability to set the output image quality. Ranging between highly compressed JPEG (lowest quality, smallest files), and PNG lossless compression (highest quality, largest files).
New in PDF OCR X 3.0.3 (Nov 8, 2018)
- Fixed some issues with searchable PDF output on some PDFs.
New in PDF OCR X 3.0.2 (Nov 5, 2018)
- Fixed issue with errors during OCR conversions on installs of Mac OS that are missing libc++.
New in PDF OCR X 3.0.1 (Oct 31, 2018)
- Fixed issue with blank output in High Sierra and older versions.
New in PDF OCR X 3.0.0 (Oct 31, 2018)
- Upgrade to latest OCR engine. Substantially better OCR accuracy.
- Added support for more languages. 161 languages supported now.
New in PDF OCR X 2.1.1 (Oct 21, 2018)
- Minor bug fixes.
- Improved retina support.
- Added support for Mojave.
New in PDF OCR X 2.0.24 (Nov 6, 2017)
- Fixed crashes on High Sierra in open file dialog
New in PDF OCR X 2.0.23 (Oct 10, 2016)
- Fixed some entitlement issues with OS X Sierra
New in PDF OCR X 2.0.22 (Sep 29, 2016)
- Fixed issue with auto-repair PDF on Sierra.
New in PDF OCR X 2.0.20 (Jan 31, 2016)
- Fixed issue with PDFs being deleted when running conversions of files on network file systems, with "Repair PDF" enabled, and "Overwrite Original" on.
New in PDF OCR X 2.0.19 (Jan 19, 2016)
- Added auto orientation detection so that if the PDF is rotated, it will will still be able to run OCR on it with good results.
New in PDF OCR X 2.0.18 (Jan 14, 2016)
- Fixed issue with app running at 100% CPU when it should be idle.
New in PDF OCR X 2.0.17 (Jan 14, 2016)
- Added option to rate a conversion and provide feedback to the developer to improve the quality of conversions.
New in PDF OCR X 2.0.16 (Jan 12, 2016)
- Fixed issue with application codesign that prevented it from running in some OS X installs.
New in PDF OCR X 2.0.15 (Jan 12, 2016)
- Added option to automatically repair corrupted PDFs.
- Added input quality option to better deal with older scanned documents that contain imperfections.
- Added option to view the output log for better debugging.
- Improved accuracy and performance in OCR engine.
New in PDF OCR X 2.0.8 (Nov 16, 2013)
- Fixed issue with the handling of some rotated PDFs.
New in PDF OCR X 2.0.7 (Nov 6, 2013)
- Fixed issue with missing characters in Searchable PDF output mode with cyrillic languages (e.g. Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Russian).
New in PDF OCR X 2.0.4 (Oct 28, 2013)
- Fixed issue with crashing on Chinese, Japanese, and Korean documents.
New in PDF OCR X 2.0.3 (Oct 28, 2013)
- Re-added support for Snow Leopard.
New in PDF OCR X 2.0.2 (Oct 28, 2013)
- Fixed issue that caused crashes on some installs of Mountain Lion.
New in PDF OCR X 2.0.1 (Oct 28, 2013)
- Changed so that silent mode doesn't prompt for output directory if "overwrite original" is selected in preferences.
- Fixed issue that caused the output mode not to be retained if changed in preferences.
- Changed the codesigning certificate to the correct one. 2.0.0 used the wrong certificate so Gatekeeper was preventing it from running on Mountain Lion and higher.
New in PDF OCR X 2.0.0 (Oct 28, 2013)
- Complete Rewrite of Entire Application for better performance, scalability, and maintainability.
- Updated OCR Library to latest version.
- Added support for more languages (over 60).
- Made it easier to install additional languages. Languages can be added with a single click right inside the program.
- Minimum requirements for 2.0.x now Lion (10.7.3 or higher) due to incompatibilities of OCR library with Snow Leopard.
New in PDF OCR X 1.9.32 (Aug 16, 2012)
- Fixed further issues with OS X 10.5 with some PDFs by including XML libraries to override the defaults in Leopard's older Java install.
New in PDF OCR X 1.9.30 (Aug 14, 2012)
- Fixed handling of PDFs that have been rotated.
New in PDF OCR X 1.9.29 (Aug 13, 2012)
- Fixed handling for cropped PDFs.
New in PDF OCR X 1.9.28 (Aug 8, 2012)
- Re-added compatibility with Leopard (10.5.x) that was inadvertently lost with the update to 1.9.27.
New in PDF OCR X 1.9.27 (Aug 8, 2012)
- Added proper code signatures so that the application will run without warnings on Mountain Lion.
New in PDF OCR X 1.9.26 (Jul 29, 2012)
- Fixed issue with Windows version running out of memory for some larger image files. Also fixed issue with Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) that prevented the application from opening. ("This Application is Damaged and should be dragged to the trash").
New in PDF OCR X 1.9.25 (Mar 29, 2012)
New in PDF OCR X 1.9.24 (Mar 24, 2012)
- Fixed issue positioning of text in searchable PDFs on PDFs that are cropped (and thus have a different crop box than the media box).
- Also fixed issue with special characters causing problems in searchable PDF conversion.
New in PDF OCR X 1.9.23 (Mar 24, 2012)
- Fixed issue with PDFs that already have text embedded.
- Some text was being removed.
- This is now fixed so existing text is left alone.
New in PDF OCR X 1.9.22 (Mar 24, 2012)
- Fixed issue when dealing with PDFs that have been rotated by 270 degrees.
- Also set language packs to be double clickable to install on Mac.
New in PDF OCR X 1.9.21 (Feb 22, 2012)
- Fixed issue with special characters (accents) causing errors when opening PDFs in Adobe Reader.
New in PDF OCR X 1.9.19 (Dec 6, 2011)
- Fixed crashing with certain malformed pages in Searchable PDF mode.
New in PDF OCR X 1.9.18 (Dec 6, 2011)
- Fixed compatibility with Java 1.6.29 and Java 1.7
New in PDF OCR X 1.9.17 (Dec 6, 2011)
- Improved support for rotated PDFs.
New in PDF OCR X 1.9.16 (Dec 6, 2011)
- Fixed issue that caused crashes if PDF OCR X application is contained inside a directory with special characters.
New in PDF OCR X 1.9.15 (Dec 6, 2011)
- Improvements to searchable PDF output to allow searching in spaces.
New in PDF OCR X 1.9.14 (Jul 30, 2011)
- Added option to overwrite the original file in searchable PDF mode. (Not recommended - or at least back it up before trying this).
- Added option to use a different suffix for converted PDF.
New in PDF OCR X 1.9.13 (Jul 30, 2011)
- Added option to disable opening of files after conversion.
New in PDF OCR X 1.9.12 (Apr 13, 2011)
- Fixed crashing problem in German introduced by 1.9.11 change
New in PDF OCR X 1.9.11 (Apr 13, 2011)
- Worked around OCR engine bug that caused HOCR output to not escape special characters.
- This would cause problems for text containing < or > characters.
New in PDF OCR X 1.9.10 (Dec 23, 2010)
- Fixed output of special characters (i.e. letters with accents). Only support for latin characters in this version. Next version will include support for other character sets like Chinese, Russian, and Japanese.
New in PDF OCR X 1.9.9 (Dec 18, 2010)
- Fixed bug with drag and drop of files into conversion panel on OS X 10.6.5. This bug is actually an Apple Bug that is fixed by doing a software update to the latest Java and OS X, but this fix allows it to deal with the bug more gracefully.
New in PDF OCR X 1.9.8 (Nov 30, 2010)
- Improved speed on single column mode (by up to 50%).
New in PDF OCR X 1.9.7 (Oct 24, 2010)
- Added option to disable interactive mode and skip settings dialogs.
New in PDF OCR X 1.9.6 (Oct 14, 2010)
- Improved support for Searchable PDF function.
- Fixed issue with PDFs where Media Box has a non-zero offset.
New in PDF OCR X 1.9.5 (Oct 8, 2010)
- Added Brazilian Portuguese translation
New in PDF OCR X 1.9.4 (Oct 5, 2010)
- Fixed issue with some PDFs coming up blank on Snow Leopard.
New in PDF OCR X 1.9.3 (Oct 4, 2010)
- Updated OCR Engine to latest version.
New in PDF OCR X 1.9.2 (Sep 26, 2010)
- Update to OCR engine.
- Minor changes.
New in PDF OCR X 1.9.1 (Sep 11, 2010)
- Added support for converting to Searchable PDFs.
New in PDF OCR X 1.8.10 (Aug 13, 2010)
- Conversion preferences are now remembered between invocations.
New in PDF OCR X 1.8.9 (Jul 30, 2010)
- Fixed issue with blank output on some versions of Snow Leopard.
New in PDF OCR X 1.8.8 (Jul 28, 2010)
- Fixed issue with blank output when using Single-column setting.
New in PDF OCR X 1.8.7 (Jul 25, 2010)
- Prepared UI for internationalization.
New in PDF OCR X 1.8.6 (Jul 17, 2010)
- Updated to latest version of OCR library.
New in PDF OCR X 1.8.5 (Jul 10, 2010)
- Fixed issue that caused PDF OCR X to hang on high resolution images.
New in PDF OCR X 1.8.4 (Jun 28, 2010)
- Added option for custom separator character between sections when using multi-column layout.
New in PDF OCR X 1.8.3 (Jun 21, 2010)
- Small user interface tweaks.