PDF Pen Does OCR and Bates Stamping

Posted by EsquireMac in Applications, Trial Prep on Dec 1st, 2008 | 4 comments
A couple of months ago, Smile On My Mac updated their PDF Pen and PDF Pen Pro applications from version 3 to version 4.  Our pal, Peter Summerill at MacLitigator, broke the news of that release here. With PDF Pen’s update to 4.0, the application gained Optical Character Recognition (OCR) functionality. Our firm decided to purchase the PDF Pen Pro app. We opted for the Pro version because it allows you to create fillable forms – a nice feature that Apple’s Preview does not provide. OCR I have used the OCR functionality of PDF Pen several times since we purchased the application. This...
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Bates Stamp PDFs on a Mac

Posted by EsquireMac in PDF on Jul 6th, 2008 | 2 comments
I’ve been in search of a freeware method for adding bates numbers to PDF files on the Mac.  Well, there’s no such thing, as of this writing.  I’ve searched high and low to find a free method for bates stamping PDF documents on a Mac, and, quite frankly, I’ve struck out. Fortunately, I run Windows XP via VM Ware Fusion and I found what I believe to be the only freeware solution out there for bates stamping PDF documents: Windows or Mac. (For those of you who aren’t lawyers or otherwise don’t know what bates stamping is, it basically means page numbering.) That...
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