PDF Converter 6

Converter – and also editor

$99.99 Developer Nuance, nuance.com Requirements OS X 10.10 or later

Despite its name, this app isn’t just for converting PDFs. You can also add annotations, make edits to text, rearrange pages, and add pages from one PDF to another.

This latest release also includes OCR, to add a searchable text layer to scans. During testing, a high-res invoice received minimal errors, but a medium-res magazine scan became a garbled mess. Edits are possible, but fiddly, often requiring you to click and update individual words within a dialog box, rather than all the text at once.

Conversions also proved variable, but were understandably dependent on document complexity and output format. However, we were impressed to find design-oriented, table-based layouts from InDesign remained largely intact when converted to Word format. Conversions go through Nuance’s server, however, and take several minutes to complete

the bottom line. Feature-rich, though not as friendly as PDF Expert 2.