10 Best OCR Software for Mac That Well Convert Scanned Files into Editable Formats

We are in the times when paperless office penetrating through our work, we use digitized files on a regular basis, like the scanned files in PDF format or images files distributed across different platform for information sharing. However, there are great chances we need to further edit these non-editable or non-searchable files for different intentions. And OCR is applied to make these scanned files to be editable. OCR (Optical Character Recognition), it is the mechanical or electronic translation of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text.

Here we list 10 top PDF OCR Software for mac to convert scanned files into editable formats.

10.PDF OCR X

PDF OCR X is a simple drag-and-drop utility that convert scanned PDF to text or searchable PDF files. This is particularly useful for dealing with PDFs that were created via a Scan-to-PDF function in a scanner or photo copier. It also supports 60 languages and batch conversion.
Input format: GIF, JPG, PNG, BMP, and PICT,PDF
Output format: Text and Searchable PDF.
Price:$29.99

9.OCR KIT Pro

OCR KIT utilizes OCR technology to recognize the text in the graphic, it can convert any PDF or graphic file into searchable PDF,RTF,HTML and TXT by simple drag&drop the file into its interface. It supports 25 languages and automatic rotation of the file.
Input Format:PDF, TIFF, JPEG, JPEG2000, PNG, PNM, BMP, PCX, GIF as well as OpenEXR.
Output Format: PDF, HTML, RTFand TXT.
Price:$59.99

8. PDF Element

PDFelement allows you to easily create, edit, annotate or convert your PDF files to other popular formats. PDFelement can detect whether a PDF file is scanned or image-based and make corresponding suggestions to initiate OCR when opening a scanned or image-based PDF. After OCR, it will open the new created PDF file in PDFelement automatically, click "EDIT" >"Edit Text" button to modify the text of the PDF file.
Input format:Native and scanned PDF
Output format:Excel, Docx, Powerpoint, Pages, Epub, RTF,TXT,HTML,IMAGE
Price:$99.95

7. PDF Editor Pro

iSkysoft PDF Editor Pro for Mac is a PDF tool with vast editing functionalities, you can align and distribute texts fields to edit texts in your PDF, also add, delete, extract, rotate, replace pages or crop images on PDF files easily. Of course you can manage the PDFs by freely splitting or merging. iSkysoft PDF Editor Pro for Mac also comes with a fast OCR technology to convert scanned PDF to multiple formats like Excel, PowerPoint, EPUB,HTML,Images and TXT. It supports 20 languages. 
Input format:scanned pdf
Output format: Excel, PowerPoint, EPUB,HTML,Images and TXT
Price:$99.95

6. PDFPen

PDF Pen is a versatile PDF tool to add signatures, text, and images, to make changes and correct typos, to fill out forms, also to perform OCR mac. As you can see, OCR is just one impressive feature among its versatilities. It can perform OCR on scanned documents, users are allowed to adjust resolution, color depth and contrast, skew and size of an image or scanned document, and also you can have quick edits with the context-sensitive popup-menus.
Price:$74.95

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5.Prizmo 3 - Pro Pack

Prizmo 3-Pro Pack is a scanning application with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in over 40 languages. Prizmo can be used by everyone, thanks to its support of VoiceOver. Prizmo includes a specific processing depending on the type of document(text, business card, image) you want to process, you are also allowed to manually update or edit recognized information if you want to make some corrections. Even you can share files after OCR processing via iCloud, Evernote, Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, WebDAV.
Input format: JPEG, RAW, TIFF,PDF Files (even Multipage)
Outformat: Prizmo Documents (.pzdoc),JPEG, TIFF, PNG, vCards for Business Cards, PDF (Text),PDF (Image + Searchable Text indexable by Spotlight),RTF,TXT
Price:$74.99

4.Readiris Pro 15 Mac

Readiris Pro 15 Mac is an OCR software for Mac OS built to convert photos and scanned Images into editable formats including:DOCX/RTF/TXT/HTML/IMAGE. It will preserve the original formatting and easily back up your files in Drive/Box/iCloud/Evernote, etc. Particularly for PDF files, Readiris Pro 15 Mac allows users to create, add, merge, delete, edit, sign, and compress pages.
Input formats: JPG, GIF, PSD, PNG, TIFF, BMP, PDF, Scanned images (Image Capture) (TWAIN)
Output formats: PDF, DOCX, XLSX, ODT, ePub, Audio, RTF, HTML, TXT, TIFF, JPEG, PNG
Price:$99

3.Cisdem PDF Converter OCR

PDF Converter OCR is an enhanced PDF OCR software designed to convert any PDF and images into searchable and editable files. It supports 16 output formats and 200+ languages. The batch conversion feature will save users a lot of time and efforts to deal with multiple scanned documents. With its easy-to-use interface and high quality OCR recognition, no more documents retyping and reformatting will be required.

What's more, this PDF OCR converter enables users to create PDF from many other documents, also protect/unprotect PDFs. Even, you can customize the PDF size and quality within this program.
Input formats: Native PDF, Scanned PDF, Secured PDF, Image
Output formats: PDF, RTFD, DOCX, DOC, XLSX, PPTX, HTML, TEXT, EPUB, PAGES ,KEYNOTE,JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP, and TIFF
Price:$49.99

 

2.ABBYY FineReader Pro for Mac

ABBYY FineReader Pro is the OCR software combines exceptional OCR and document conversion quality with an intuitive interface. It can precisely recognize text and retain layout with a support of more than 180 languages. You can easily convert PDF to Word on mac, also output the files into various formats like TXT, XSLX, EPBU, HTML, PDF, etc. It also supports batch processing and Text-to-Speech, quite time saving and convenient for every user.
When processing images, the image editor will enable you to improving the quality by correcting brightness and contrast, straightening curved text lines, correcting trapezium distortions, reducing ISO noise and removing motion blur, spliting dual pages, cropping images, and so on.
Input format: PDF, Image(TIFF,  JPEG, JPEG 2000, JBIG, JBIG2, GIF, PNG,  BMP),
Output format: PDF, PDF/A, DOCX, RTF,  XLSX, PPTX, ODT, HTML,TXT,CSV,EPUB,FBS
Price:$119.99    

1.Adobe Acrobat DC

Not surprised that Adobe ranks as No.1, right? We all know the power of Adobe products, a great PDF tool to edit, create, and make interactive PDFs. There is an automatic OCR software in Adobe Acrobat DC, Acrobat automatically applies optical character recognition (OCR) to your document and converts it to a fully editable copy of your PDF. It also helps to turn scanned documents into searchable PDFs, export PDFs to Office and image formats. You can even fill forms, sign, comment, and share, virtually everything you want to do on a PDF with Adobe Acrobat DC. 
Price: US$14.99/month

Conclusion

In fact, OCR software with elegant performance on the market is still small in quantity, in the final analysis, it demands high on OCR technology and has to outperform similar products by offering more surprising and high-quality features. Among these 10 OCR software, I highly recommend a  PDF OCR software: Cisdem PDF Converter OCR and ABBYY FineReader Pro, rather than a built-in feature of a PDF tool, they are more professional on OCR processing, especially for the reason that they allow users to manually update or rectify the PDF to the best.