PDF OCR

PDF OCR is a simple-to-use application which allows you to convert PDF files to plain text documents, as well as images to PDFs.
The interface of the program is plain and simple. In case of PDF-to-TXT conversions, you can open a PDF file via the file browser only, because the "drag and drop" method is not supported (and neither is batch processing).
So, you can go to the next or previous page, as well as zoom in and out. Once you initiate the conversion task, you can enable PDF OCR to process the current page, all of them or just a selected few. Plus, you can change the interface language.
If you want to convert images to PDFs, then you should know that PDF OCR allows the "drag and drop" method and batch conversions, and supports the JPG, TIF, BMP, GIF and PNG extensions.
So, you can specify the document title, author name, creation date, subject, keywords and output directory. Plus, you can adjust the compression quality.
The simplistic program runs on a low-to-moderate amount of system resources and quickly finishes a conversion job without freezing, crashing or popping up errors. However, the text layout is not maintained at an excellent quality. For instance, PDF OCR doesn't support special characters found in other languages besides English.
In addition, there is no help file available, the interface is outdated and you cannot convert PDFs to TXT in batch mode. We recommend PDF OCR with reservations, mainly to novices.