• Windows 2000 / XP / Server 2003 / Vista / Server 2008 / 7 / 8 / 10 / 11 and later systems of both 32-bit and 64-bit.

• Text based PDF files (or searchable PDF files)
• PDF files which contain embedded fonts only
• Scanned PDF files (or Image based PDF files)
• Scanned single page and multi-page TIFF files
• Scanned JPEG, JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, PCX, TGA, PBM, PNM, PPM files

• Plain text files without layout (.txt)
• Plain text files with layout (.txt)
• Plain text based PDF files (PDF is contain text layer only) (.pdf)
• Attach OCRed text layer to original PDF file (.pdf)
• OCRed BW PDF files with hidden text layer (.pdf)
• OCRed Color PDF files with hidden text layer (.pdf)
• OCRed Grayscale PDF files with hidden text layer (.pdf)
• OCR Scanned PDF, TIFF and Image files to RTF format (.rtf)
• OCR Scanned PDF, TIFF and Image files to DOC format (.doc)
• OCR Scanned PDF, TIFF and Image files to Tab Text format (.txt)
• OCR Scanned PDF, TIFF and Image files to CSV format (.csv)
• OCR Scanned PDF, TIFF and Image files to MS Excel format (.xls)
• OCR Scanned PDF, TIFF and Image files to HTML format (.htm, .html)
• Output to TIFF, PNG, BMP, TGA, GIF with Deskew, Despeckle, Noise Removal, Auto-Orientation, Dithering, Black Border Removal, etc. options

Scanned PDF & TIFF & Image files to Text files with OCR Conversion

• Convert text based PDF files to plain text files with/without using OCR.
• Convert text based PDF files to plain text files with reading order (Reading Layout).
• Convert text based PDF files to plain text files with original layout, align text contents in multiple columns, keep spaces in tables, mean TABText or physical layout (Physical Layout).
• Use OCR to convert characters which render by embedded fonts from PDF file to text file.
• Convert scanned TIFF and Image files to text files using OCR.
• Recognize characters from images, such as TIFF, BMP, PNG, JPG, PCX, and TGA.
• Able to extract text from owner password and user password protected PDF files.
• Add page breaker (0x0C) between pages in output text files.
• Able to add page number and footer text to the end of each text page.

Scanned PDF & TIFF & Image files to Office Documents with OCR Conversion

• Active Enhanced OCR Technology with -ocr2 option.
• Use Enhanced OCR Technology to convert Scanned PDF, TIFF and Image files to RTF, DOC, TXT, CSV, Excel, HTML formats.
• No need MS Office to create RTF, DOC, CSV, Excel files.
• Convert scanned PDF documents to MS Excel documents in several layouts,

  1. One Excel Sheet per PDF page + One Excel Sheet for all PDF pages

  2. One Excel Sheet per PDF page

  3. One Excel Sheet contains all PDF pages

• PDF to Excel Converter: Batch convert tables from scanned PDF and Image files to Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.
• PDF to HTML Converter: Batch convert your scanned PDF and Image files to high quality reflowed HTML while preserving styles, tables, etc.
• PDF to Word Converter: Batch convert scanned PDF and Image files to Microsoft Word documents.
• Table Recovery Engine: Superior reconstruction of bordered and borderless tables as table objects, with formatting, into Word & HTML & Excel & CSV, etc.
• Auto-Orientation: Automatically detect text orientation, rotating in proper way landscape images acquired in portrait or portrait images acquired in landscape! Then OCR rotated images to Office documents.
• Able to use wildcard character (*.pdf, *.html, *.tif, *.jpg, *.png, *.doc, *.rtf, etc.) to batch convert scanned PDF & TIFF & Image files to RTF, DOC, XLS, CSV, TXT and HTML documents.

Scanned PDF & TIFF & Image files to "Searchable PDF" & "Plain Text PDF" with OCR Conversion

• Convert scanned PDF files and Image files to plain text files using OCR technology.
• Convert scanned PDF files and Image files to searchable PDF files using OCR technology, it does generate:

  1. Grayscale searchable PDF files (Grayscale Image Layer + Invisible Text Layer);

  2. Color searchable PDF files (Color Image Layer + Invisible Text Layer);

  3. Black and White searchable PDF files (Black and White Image Layer + Invisible Text Layer);

  4. Pure text layer PDF file (Visible Text Layer Only).

• Powerful OCR modes, include:
  -ocrmode 0: output to text file
  -ocrmode 1: OCR PDF pages and insert new text layer under original PDF pages
  -ocrmode 2: output to plain text based PDF file
  -ocrmode 3: output to OCRed PDF file (BW) with hidden text layer
  -ocrmode 4: output to OCRed PDF file (Color) with hidden text layer
• Convert embedded fonts in PDF file to a new searchable PDF file with hidden text layer.
• Create searchable PDF with original color retained, insert a hidden text layer into resultant PDF file.
• Create searchable black-and-white PDF without image, contain pure text layer into resultant PDF file.
• Create searchable black-and-white PDF with image, insert a hidden text layer into resultant PDF file.
• Able to attach OCRed text contents as a hidden text layer and insert it into original PDF file.
• Create searchable PDF with specific color depth of image layer, e.g., Ture Color Image Layer, Grayscale Image Layer, or Black and White Image Layer.
• Create TEXT file containing the coordination information of each word in original PDF, TIFF, Image files, e.g., [X, Y, Width, Height] TEXT.
• When output to searchable PDF file, you can set owner passwords to protect PDF from unauthorized editing, printing, and coping.
• When output to searchable PDF file, you can set open or user passwords to protect PDF from unauthorized opening.
• Support 40-bit or 128-bit PDF encryption protection for output PDF file.
• Able to set descriptions to output PDF files, such as, title, subject, author, keywords, created time, modified time, creator and producer.

Image to Image Conversion

• Deskew, Despeckle and Noise Removal, Auto-Orientation, Dithering, Black Border Removal.
• Set color depth when render "Text Based PDF file", "Image Based PDF file" or "Image file" to a new image file, it can be set 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 color depth, default is 8bit for PDF file importing.
• Deskew: Detect image skew angle and deskew image automatically. Image skew angle can be estimated with great accuracy in two ways: analyzing the text on the image or finding the black border around the paper.
• Despeckle and Noise Removal: Remove speckle cleaning images! Despeckle is the technique of removing speckles (extra pixels) from images gathered by using a scanner, or even after having been captured by digital or conventional cameras. The reasons why users prefer to remove this so-called noise range from aesthetic purposes to practical ones (so that the images look smoother and better, overall).
• Black Border Removal and Auto Cropping: Remove black border around images automatically.
• Resizing and Scaling: Resize or scale images! You can set the new width and new height to the output images.
• Rotation and Flipping: Rotate images! You can rotate images by any angle. You can flip images horizontally or vertically.
• File Format Conversion: Convert file formats! Convert files in batch to/from TIFF, JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF and PDF format!
• Rich Dither Options: Convert the color images or grayscale images to B&W images (monochrome images) using the desired method,
  -dither 0: Floyd-Steinberg
  -dither 1: Ordered-Dithering (4x4)
  -dither 2: Burkes
  -dither 3: Stucki
  -dither 4: Jarvis-Judice-Ninke
  -dither 5: Sierra
  -dither 6: Stevenson-Arce
  -dither 7: Bayer (4x4 ordered dithering)
• Threshold: Specify a threshold value for image binarization, or find the optimal treshold for image binarization automatically.

General options

• Convert specified pages of source PDF files.
• Specify resolution (DPI) when render PDF pages to image files.
• Set Owner Password or User Password to open encrypted PDF files.
• Support command line operation which is useful for batch process.
• No need for a third-party PDF reader application.
• No need for Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat applications.
• Support more than ten languages (download language packages here).
• Support multi-page PDF and TIFF files.
• Support scanned PDF, TIFF/TIF, JPG/JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF, PCX, TGA, PBM, PNM, PPM files, the resolution should larger than 300 DPI, created from scanner, Black and White color depth.