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PDFScanner Changelog

What's new in PDFScanner 2023.1

Feb 15, 2023
  • Scanner Compatibility Fixes

New in PDFScanner 2022.2 (Aug 29, 2022)

  • Fixed an error when recompressing existing files

New in PDFScanner 2022.1 (Aug 22, 2022)

  • Compatibility fixes
  • Apply „Reverse page order“ only to selection
  • Initial support for the macOS Shortcuts app (OCR in place action)

New in PDFScanner 2021.12 (Dec 10, 2021)

  • Updated the OCR engine for improved performance and accuracy

New in PDFScanner 2021.11 (Nov 23, 2021)

  • Minor improvements and bug fixes

New in PDFScanner 2021.10 (Aug 3, 2021)

  • OCR accuracy has been improved.

New in PDFScanner 2021.9 (Jul 27, 2021)

  • New: PDF/A support (requires at least macOS Big Sur)
  • Documents scanned with PDFScanner can now be saved conforming to the PDF/A standard, which defines a subset of PDF that is guaranteed to be always displayed in the same way (e.g. by forbidding certain features and embedding all fonts). Many industry-specific regulations and certifications require PDF/A for long-term document archiving.
  • This release also improves scanning from iOS, so page sizes now better reflect the real size of the document. This is still not perfect, but unfortunately the iPhone/iPad does not provide sizing information, so PDFScanner has to guess based on the layout.

New in PDFScanner 2021.8 (Jul 26, 2021)

  • New: PDF/A support (requires at least macOS Big Sur)
  • Documents scanned with PDFScanner can now be saved conforming to the PDF/A standard, which defines a subset of PDF that is guaranteed to be always displayed in the same way (e.g. by forbidding certain features and embedding all fonts). Many industry-specific regulations and certifications require PDF/A for long-term document archiving.
  • This release also improves scanning from iOS, so page sizes now better reflect the real size of the document. This is still not perfect, but unfortunately the iPhone/iPad does not provide sizing information, so PDFScanner has to guess based on the layout.

New in PDFScanner 2021.7 (Apr 26, 2021)

  • New: Scan from nearby iOS devices:
  • You can now use your iPhone or iPad to take a picture of a document and import it in PDFScanner. Perspective correction is done on device and with adequate lighting the quality comes close to using a real scanner.
  • 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.

New in PDFScanner 2021.6 (Mar 22, 2021)

  • Moved default save / compression options in Preferences and allowed to change them in the save window on a per-save basis
  • Bugfixes

New in PDFScanner 2021.4 (Mar 12, 2021)

  • PDFScanner is now 10 years old and has been updated for free at least once a year, so it's time to change the versioning scheme. Instead of version 1.17, this one is called 2021.4 (the 4th update in 2021) and future updates will follow that naming convention. This means there won't be a version 2 and therefore updates will always stay free. Maybe in the future some pro features will be added added as an in-app purchase - but I promise I won't take existing features from you and charge for them!
  • In this release:
  • Addes Turkish language
  • Major improvements in OCR speed and accuracy
  • Bugfixes

New in PDFScanner 1.16.3 (Feb 18, 2021)

  • Automatic orientation detection (only works for pages with text)
  • Added an option (in the advanced preferences) to rotate every other page in duplex mode, because some scanner drivers started sending those pages upside down
  • Added two digit year numbers in filename tokens
  • Fixed some minor display issues

New in PDFScanner 1.16.2 (Jan 11, 2021)

  • Just a small fix in the german localization

New in PDFScanner 1.16.1 (Jan 8, 2021)

  • German localization
  • Updated privacy information (simple: PDFScanner never sends data to anywhere)

New in PDFScanner 1.16.0 (Nov 11, 2020)

  • Updated for macOS Big Sur and native Apple Silicon compatibility

New in PDFScanner 1.15.4 (Jul 30, 2020)

  • Ensured future compatibility and fixed a few bugs

New in PDFScanner 1.15.3 (May 8, 2020)

  • Fixed a problem when Brother scanners are connected by both Wifi and USB at once.

New in PDFScanner 1.15.2 (Mar 15, 2020)

  • Improved Save Performance
  • Fixed all kinds of problems when using multiple scanners

New in PDFScanner 1.15.1 (Nov 1, 2019)

  • Tweaked compression settings and fixed a bug when the filename pattern is empty.

New in PDFScanner 1.15.0 (Oct 25, 2019)

  • Improved compression
  • Added experimental JPEG2000 support (higher compression for color and grayscale scans, can be enabled in the preferences)
  • Added a menu item to start the scan so it can be automated and the shortcut (CMD-Enter) is visible
  • Improved automatic num

New in PDFScanner 1.14.3 (Oct 21, 2019)

  • More compatibility updates for Catalina

New in PDFScanner 1.14.1 (Jul 9, 2019)

  • Bug fixes

New in PDFScanner 1.14.0 (Mar 13, 2019)

  • Updated the OCR engine for greatly improved accuracy
  • Fixed a compatibility problem with Brother scanners

New in PDFScanner 1.13.3 (Feb 4, 2019)

  • Improvements to OCR and PDF file handling
  • New setting to auto remove blank pages
  • Bug fixes and performance improvements

New in PDFScanner 1.13.2 (Feb 1, 2019)

  • Improvements to OCR and PDF file handling
  • New setting to auto remove blank pages
  • Bug fixes and performance improvements

New in PDFScanner 1.13.1 (Oct 2, 2018)

  • Bug fixes

New in PDFScanner 1.13.0 (Sep 19, 2018)

  • UI Update to support Dark Mode and the system global highlight color.
  • Bug fixes and performance improvements

New in PDFScanner 1.12.1 (May 26, 2018)

  • Bug fixes and performance improvements
  • New option to remove successfully saved pages

New in PDFScanner 1.12.0 (Mar 21, 2018)

  • New option to automatically remove saved pages from the workspace
  • Under the hood improvements, bug fixes and compatibility updates.

New in PDFScanner 1.11.9 (Oct 9, 2017)

  • Fix for a rotation bug on High Sierra.

New in PDFScanner 1.11.8 (Jul 5, 2017)

  • Bug fixes and performance improvements.

New in PDFScanner 1.11.7 (Jun 13, 2017)

  • Bug fixes and performance enhancements
  • Improved scan quality
  • Improved OCR accuracy
  • UI Enhancements

New in PDFScanner 1.11.6 (Dec 14, 2016)

  • Compatibility update for macOS 10.12.2

New in PDFScanner 1.11.5 (Oct 27, 2016)

  • Fixed a bug in the reverse page order action

New in PDFScanner 1.11.4 (Oct 15, 2016)

  • Fixed printing directly from within the app.

New in PDFScanner 1.11.3 (Sep 28, 2016)

  • Updated for macOS Sierra
  • Default save folder selection
  • Many bugfixes and under the hood improvements
  • Please note: Because of driver compatibility problems on Sierra, this version enables the "Image Capture Compatibility mode" by default. This makes PDFScanner behave exactly like Image Capture but may lead to slightly larger PDF files. You can disable this mode in the Preferences, but until the drivers are fixed, this may cause all kinds of errors.

New in PDFScanner 1.11.2 (Sep 24, 2016)

  • Updated for macOS Sierra
  • Default save folder selection
  • Many bug fixes and under the hood improvements

New in PDFScanner 1.11.1 (Sep 20, 2016)

  • Updated for macOS Sierra
  • Default save folder selection
  • Many bug fixes and under the hood improvements

New in PDFScanner 1.11.0 (Sep 19, 2016)

  • Updated for macOS Sierra
  • Default save folder selection
  • Many bugfixes and under the hood improvements

New in PDFScanner 1.10.3 (Aug 23, 2016)

  • Compatibility Updates

New in PDFScanner 1.10.2 (Oct 23, 2015)

  • Compatibility updates and bug fixes.

New in PDFScanner 1.10.1 (Oct 1, 2015)

  • Automatic white background correction for color and grayscale scans
  • Share buttons to share to Mail, Messages, Airdrop or third party apps (for example Evernote if the Evernote app is installed from the Mac App Store)
  • Auto-crop feature for easy scanning of small items such as tickets or receipts (just put the item on the flatbed scanner and let auto crop find the bounds)
  • A new setting to automatically OCR documents that are opened with PDFScanner
  • Improved OCR accuracy and speed
  • Performance improvements and bugfixes
  • Full support for OSX El Capitan

New in PDFScanner 1.10.0 (Sep 22, 2015)

  • Automatic white background correction for color and grayscale scans
  • Share buttons to share to Mail, Messages, Airdrop or third party apps (for example Evernote if the Evernote app is installed from the Mac App Store)
  • Auto-crop feature for easy scanning of small items such as tickets or receipts (just put the item on the flatbed scanner and let auto crop find the bounds)
  • A new setting to automatically OCR documents that are opened with PDFScanner
  • Improved OCR accuracy and speed
  • Performance improvements and bug fixes
  • Full support for OS X El Capitan

New in PDFScanner 1.9.2 (Feb 6, 2015)

  • Bringing back upside down landscape / portrait modes (by popular request)
  • Keeping modification date for in-place OCR in the Automator action
  • Bug fixes and performance improvements

New in PDFScanner 1.9.1 (Nov 3, 2014)

  • Full Yosemite support
  • User interface modernization
  • Option to automatically determine source (flatbed or document feeder)
  • Applescript and Automator support
  • Improved performance and quality when importing images
  • Ledger paper format support
  • Lots of bug fixes

New in PDFScanner 1.8.0 (Mar 21, 2014)

  • New Logo
  • Even better compression for black and white scans
  • Auto thresholding for software black and white conversion
  • Menu action to convert docs to black and white
  • Revert page menu action to go back to scanned version of a page
  • Book page separation in crop view
  • Improved border detection in crop view
  • Improved OCR accuracy
  • Bug fixes and performance improvements

New in PDFScanner 1.7.0 (Feb 11, 2014)

  • Copying from PDFScanner will now copy plain text with correct paragraph breaks. This makes pasting to other applications a lot more convenient.
  • Auto detect borders in crop view
  • Software reduction to black and white with configurable threshold
  • Auto detect and link URLs and email addresses
  • Guess title and document date from OCR data and allow to use them in save presets
  • Full Retina support
  • Bug fixes and workarounds for some scanner driver issues

New in PDFScanner 1.6.0 (Jan 8, 2014)

  • Full Mavericks support (including Finder Tags and AppNap)
  • Improved OCR performance and quality
  • Improved text line accuracy
  • You can now drag and drop pages to Finder or Mail.app
  • Lots of bug fixes

New in PDFScanner 1.5.2 (Dec 21, 2012)

  • Fixed a bug when overwriting existing files

New in PDFScanner 1.5.1 (Oct 18, 2012)

  • Fixed problems with OCR on OS X Lion

New in PDFScanner 1.5.0 (Sep 25, 2012)

  • Full Mountain Lion Support
  • Notification Center Support (via Growl 2.0)
  • Improved OCR accuracy
  • Allowing OCR on imported pages that already contain text
  • Various small improvements when importing and saving documents
  • Bug fixes

New in PDFScanner 1.4.1 (Aug 10, 2011)

  • Improving accuracy of OCR text placement
  • Using default PDF fonts (when high compression is enabled) to save space
  • Adding A3 support
  • Adding shortcurt (CMD-Backspace) for clear action
  • Allowing OCR on pages that already contain text
  • Fixing a weird bug that sometimes happens when saving documents in landscape orientation

New in PDFScanner 1.4.0 (Jul 21, 2011)

  • Establishing full compatibility with Mac OS X Lion
  • Supporting overlay scrolling on Mac OS X Lion
  • Enabling full screen mode on Mac OS X Lion
  • Using OS X Lion user interface elements
  • Performance optimizations
  • Bug fixes

New in PDFScanner 1.3.1 (May 30, 2011)

  • Improved the compression for black and white documents resulting in much smaller files (limited to scanned documents for now)
  • Restructured the Preferences and added the option to disable embedding multiple fonts (to reduce file size)
  • Fixed a bug that prevented duplex from being deactivated
  • Added confirmation dialog when closing the app with unsaved changes
  • Other small bug fixes

New in PDFScanner 1.3.0 (May 16, 2011)

  • Improved the compression for black and white documents resulting in much smaller files (limited to scanned, non-cropped documents for now)
  • Restructured the Preferences and added the option to disable embedding multiple fonts (to reduce file size)
  • Fixed a bug that prevented duplex from being deactivated
  • Other small bug fixes

New in PDFScanner 1.2.0 (Mar 28, 2011)

  • Added crop functionality
  • Added import of image files (png, jpeg, tiff)
  • Added support to open pdf and image files from the Finder
  • Added support to drag pdf and image files to the dock icon
  • Added the option to scan upside down documents
  • Added the option to disable the „no scanner found“ warning message
  • Added A5 and A6 document sizes
  • Updated the OCR engine (fixes some bugs in character recognition)
  • Updated the troubleshooting section in the help pages
  • Fixed an issue with OCR on landscape pages
  • Numerous other small bug fixes

New in PDFScanner 1.1.0 (Jan 31, 2011)

  • Major improvements to OCR quality and speed
  • Added Growl notifications (if Growl is installed). Must be enabled in the Preferences.
  • Added a „Reverse Page Order“ menu option
  • Added page orientation selection in the scanner setup dialog
  • Added support for hardware duplex scanning
  • Added an option to select the OCR language for imported documents to the Preferences
  • Added OCR languages: French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish
  • Improved image quality for the deskew operation
  • Improved anti aliasing for the PDF main view
  • Updated help
  • Bugfix: Saved resolution was not correctly restored on next start