Surprise! Fujitsu Releases 64-Bit ScanSnap Manager for Older Scanners

[jimthing]

Yeah, @cwilcox made related comment about this in Oct 2019, see here:

PDFpen and PDFpenPro 11.1.1

FYI, I have PDFpen via Setapp and “Nuance Power PDF for Mac” via a recent Fujitsu ScanSnap iX1500 purchase bundled license code. They have almost identical interfaces, as from my investigations they seem to both use the same Kofax backend. Wonder whether the Pro version of PDFpen does anything the Nuance doesn’t…?

PDFpen and PDFpenPro 11.1.1

Earlier this year, Kofax acquired Nuance Document Imaging, a division of Nuance Communications, Inc. My guess is Kofax and Nuance PDF software are basically the same, just branding changes (there may have also been a licensing relationship before the acquisition). PDFPen and PDFPenPro do contain licensed Nuance-Omnipage OCR software, Omnipage is a part of what Kofax acquired. I think that’s the only connection, PDFPen & PDFPenPro are made by SmileOnMyMac. It seems almost everything commercial t…