System Requirements

• Any Intel Mac

• Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard or later

• Minimum: 64 MB of VRAM (GPU)
• Highly recommended: 128 MB VRAM or higher

File Formats

• Regular photo files including JPEG, RAW, TIFF
• PDF files (even multipage)

• JPEG, TIFF, PNG
• OCR Results:
• PDF (Text)
• PDF (Image + Hidden Text)
• RTF
• TXT

Input Options

• Camera plug detection
• Direct browsing of camera content
• Browsing of iPhoto, Aperture and Lightroom libraries
• Full Tethering (application commands that a connected Canon or Nikon DSLR camera takes a picture)
• Half Tethering (application automatically imports picture after manual shot)

• Image acquisition from connected scanner (Snow Leopard only). All supported scanners are listed here.

Output Options

• Copy/paste of result
• Drag result from preview pane to any other application
• Print from within the application
• Save Over the input file
• Save the entire undistorted image

Extraction Options

• Extraction grid shows non-linear lens distortion
• Interactive Grid Positioning
• Perspective-locked Grid Positioning
• Guessing of optimal DPI for current image/grid configuration
• Precise control on output size in any unit & DPI

Image Processing

• Ultra-fast GPU accelerated image processing
• Rotation of image (left or right)
• Resampling to any size/DPI
• Brightness/contrast Tuning
• Smart Binarization for even improved output resolution
• Adaptive Binarization for dark and bright areas
• Homogenization of image
• Support of user presets
• Manual tuning of distortion coefficients
• Eyedrop Tool for Page Background Determination
• Lens distortion correction
• Page curvature correction

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

• Highly Accurate OCR Engine (OpenRTK by ExperExchange, Inc.)
• Support for 10 Languages (English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian)
• In-place Display of Recognized Text Blocks inside Input Image
• Text Skimming on Recognized Text Blocks (previewing OCR results)
• Export of formatted output (RTF, PDF)
• Export of Image with Hidden Text (Spotlight Indexable) as PDF
• Adjustable, Interactive Binarization for Optimal Results
• Selective Copy/Paste of Text Blocks

Camera Calibration

• Step-by-step camera calibration assistant
• Printed or on-screen calibration pattern
• Saving of calibration results for future use
• Optional collaborative sharing of calibration results with other users

User Experience

• Elegant and Intuitive Interface
• Real-time preview of extracted image
• Zoom in/out, Zoom to Fit, Zoom All
• Expandable preview pane