PDFpen 7.1, Now with 100% More Deskew

PDFpen 7.1 got a nice update with some bug fixes and new features, including formatting options for page numbering and custom stamps. For me, the big new feature is the ability to auto-deskew when performing optical character recognition. Sadly, some of the people I work with aren’t anal-retentive nerds and they often send me scanned documents that are more skewed than a cable news program. 


PDFpen OCR preferences window with an option to deskew pages

With version 7.1, PDFpen will now perform the OCR and then straighten the page using the OCR’d text as a baseline. That means when you go to highlight later, everything lines up, just right. This made me so happy that I made a video.

Written by David Sparks

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