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PDFify vs Scans to PDF: catalog facts
PDFify	Scans to PDF
Paid Free to try without sign-up; full use is paid.	Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0-or-later licence.
macOS	Linux, Command line
OCR in over 100 languages with Apple Vision or Tesseract PDF/A output for archiving	Separate compression of text and background keeps scanned PDFs small Adds an invisible OCR layer so documents become searchable
macOS only Full use requires payment after the trial	Color and grayscale scans need preparation in other tools for good results Linux only
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: GPL-3.0-or-later
No account needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	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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