PDF Pen Does OCR and Bates Stamping

Date December 1, 2008

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 [...]

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More on ScanTango and Redacting PDFs

Date August 10, 2008

After my post about redacting PDFs without Adobe, Craig Landrum, the author of ScanTango sent me an excellent email. With his permission, I am posting his comments for your benefit.
I’m the author of ScanTango and I really appreciate the nice mention of the application in your blog. Some feedback on redaction:
When most applications redact, [...]

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Redact Your PDFs Without Adobe

Date August 6, 2008

As you may have noticed from my previous post about PDFs, for reasons spelled out there, I’m not a big fan of Adobe. I recently had occasion to produce several hundred pages of discovery. After bates stamping the documents, I had to redact some handwritten notes from the client to myself as they were privileged [...]

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Bates Stamp PDFs on a Mac

Date July 6, 2008

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 [...]

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