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