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PDFify vs Rescribe: catalog facts
PDFify	Rescribe
Paid Free to try without sign-up; full use is paid.	Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0 licence.
macOS	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
OCR in over 100 languages with Apple Vision or Tesseract PDF/A output for archiving	Tuned for historical printed books Outputs searchable PDF and plain text
macOS only Full use requires payment after the trial	macOS users may need to authorize the app in security settings Extra languages and scripts are a separate download
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: GPL-3.0
No account needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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