PDFpen supports OCR for 19 languages, use the checkboxes to choose the ones you’d like as shown below. PDFpen will automatically ask if you want to use OCR on a scanned document.
How to apply OCR to scanned PDFs on Mac PDFpen Let’s take a look at two trusted software options below. While the Preview app on macOS can handle basic editing of PDFs and other documents, it doesn’t have OCR software built-in. If you have a PDF that isn’t searchable it was likely sourced from an image, like a scan. Read on for some options to apply OCR to PDFs on Mac. Do you have a PDF document, but the text isn’t searchable? You can change that with optical character recognition (OCR) software.
