Use it every day, works well, some UI tweaks would help

I use this app every day for work to OCR documents in foreign languages so that the documents can be translated using a CAT tool, and I am so thankful there is a great OS X-compatible app for this purpose so I don’t have to use Windows. The multilingual functionality is of critical importance for my work, and text recognition works comparatively well in all the languages I have tried it in. Quality of text recognition is very dependent on the clarity and resolution of the original PDF, of course. Even as I rely on this app, documents still need formatting clean-up afterward; that is true of any and all OCR applications out there (I’ve tried many), and this one compares favorably. I use it every day, and for my purposes it meets all my needs and saves me a ton of work.

Here is my wish list for a future update: The app could use a few UI tweaks, including customizable keyboard shortcuts, changes to reduce mousing, continuous scrolling, etc. I also wish output were not in Word 2007 DOCX format but in the latest 2010 and 2013 DOCX formats (which have certain advantages in a translation environment). Other changes I would make: 1. Table structures should always be with a *minimum* row height, not an absolute row height (which can mask text that doesn’t fit). 2. Text boxes and frames should always have a minimum height as well (also to prevent masking text below the bottom border). 3. Images should be inline. 4. A version of Exact Copy output should be possible that strictly uses tables and not frames. 5. iCloud Drive or OneDrive integration. 6. Training technology, which exists in the Windows version but is missing in the Mac version. 7. More sophisticated formatting awareness to minimize tags (in the underlying OOXML). 8. OOXML tag cleaner (it gets carried away with bookmarks too, sometimes).

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