It’s useless with any text that’s curved, script, or handwritten, but that’s the norm in the industry-handwriting recognition is still in the dark ages in the consumer OCR space. I’ve been testing OCR and PDF programs for several years now with a very tough set of images and PDF files that stress OCR engines to the max. On the whole, I found it much easier and more intuitive to navigate Power PDF than Acrobat XI. I’m being a tad rough on the Power PDF interface, but there’s far more good than bad. Dialogs continually popped up at the far left corner of the screen. Also, with a dynamic zoom tool (click/hold and move the mouse backwards and forwards to zoom in and out) that works wonderfully on its own, why the duplicative old-fashioned separate zoom-in and zoom-out tools? If you come up with a better way, people will use it-multiple methodologies confuse and waste space. However, in my hands-on with 1.0, there were one or two immature moments. Power PDF’s paned interface is eye-catchingly rendered in the latest Microsoft style and has some welcome layout features. Power PDF offers a range of security options.
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There are also the usual text editing and comment tools plus a nice drag-and-drop watermark feature with a number of templates. Other nice Power PDF features include cloud service conduits and integrated text-to-speech.
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There are a full set of form controls including buttons, radio buttons, check boxes-all the stuff you’re used to from dialog boxes. Power PDF supports the latest in PDF forms technology, including conversion of plain PDFs to forms. There’s also a nice stamp feature for marking documents as read, processed, cancelled, paid, etc. Signatures are handled nicely and you can even draw your own on screen if you have a suitably fluid input device (a mouse if you’re really good, stylus or tablet for most of us).
The latter may be read-only, password, or certificate protection. Power PDF handles just about every aspect of PDF creation and editing that you could ask for, including layering, 3D, sound and file attachments, and security. And with 95 percent of the features of Acrobat at only one-third the cost ($90), it’s a bargain. That said, the interface, while easy to use, needs more work and the OCR can’t match Acrobat’s abilities with complex documents. When it comes to creating and editing PDF files, it doesn’t get much better than Nuance’s new Power PDF Standard.
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