PDFpen Scan+ 1.3 Updates UI, Improves Scanning and Cropping, Adds OCR Preview and More

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FOR RELEASE APRIL 17, 2014 (ANY TIME)

PDFpen Scan+ 1.3 Updates UI, Improves Scanning and Cropping, Adds OCR Preview and More

San Francisco, CA – April 17, 2014 – Smile, a developer of productivity applications for Mac and iOS, has released PDFpen Scan+ 1.3, an update to their mobile scanning and OCR app. The user interface has been redesigned in several areas for ease of use. Scanning is simpler. Bulk scanning is faster with post-process image editing.

Scan cropping controls have been updated for easier handling and precision.

New “Receipt” and “Custom” sizes have been added to the paper size menu.

OCRed documents now offer an OCR results preview via text overlay.

PDFpen Scan+ is available for an introductory price of $4.99 on the App Store℠. It requires an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch running iOS 7.

What’s New:
– Updated for iOS 7, which is now required
– Enhanced user interface and usability
– Adds “Receipt” and “Custom” paper sizes
– Preview OCR text as page overlay
– New scan cropping features improve precision and ease of use
– Effortless multi-page scans
– Improved OCR accuracy and OCR text layout
– New page rotation animations
– Post-process cropping and image adjustments for smoother workflow
– New page badges show unprocessed images

PDFpen Scan+ features:
– One-touch scanning directly from your iPhone or iPad camera
– Scan multiple images into a single document
– Detect page edges automatically and crop scan
– Use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to convert scans into searchable PDFs (OCR is performed in-app, not sent to a cloud service)
– Preview and copy text recognized by OCR
– OCR documents in 18 different languages. Languages include: Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Swedish.
– Email and share PDF documents with embedded, searchable OCR text
– Import scans from your photo library
– Import scans from image and PDF files via “Open In…”
– Store documents in iCloud for sharing between devices
– Rotate scanned pages
– Folder support for document organization
– TextExpander touch support for renaming documents
– Enhance brightness/contrast of scanned pages
– Adjust scan resolution for color, grayscale, and text
– Print documents
– Share documents with PDFpen for markup and editing
– Import and Export documents using Dropbox, Evernote, Box, Alfresco, and Google Drive cloud services
– Import and Export documents using iTunes, FTP, and WebDAV
– Works with both iPhone and iPad, iOS 7 required

Requirements:
– an iOS device running iOS 7 or above

Pricing:
$4.99 (Introductory price)
Available on the App Store
https://smilesoftware.com/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?product=pdfpen-scan&cmd=itunes

Icon, logotype and screenshots
https://smilesoftware.com/assets/images/uploads/PDFpenScan_graphics.zip

For more information about PDFpen Scan+ please visit:
https://smilesoftware.com/PDFpen/Scan


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ABOUT SMILE
Smile makes productivity software for OS X and iOS devices, including PDFpen, the Mac PDF editor that won an Editors’ Choice Award from Macworld and The Mac Observer; PDFpen for iPad, the mobile PDF editor that won Macworld 2012 Best of Show; PDFpen for iPhone, winner of The Mac Observer’s Editors’ Choice Award; PDFpen Scan+, which brings the power of OCR to your iPad and iPhone; TextExpander, the Mac typing shortcut tool that also won a Macworld Eddy award; TextExpander touch for the iPhone and iPad; and DiscLabel, the Macworld Eddy award-winning CD label design program.

Demos of all Smile products for OS X are available for free download at https://smilesoftware.com/.

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CONTACTS:

Maia Olson (+1-510-599-7070, PST)
PR, Smile
maia@smilesoftware.com

Greg Scown (+1-510-289-4000, PST)
Founder, Smile
greg@smilesoftware.com

Philip Goward
Founder, Smile
philip@smilesoftware.com

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