The reason I installed it on my Mac was simply to see what its interface looked like, so I could more easily explain it to a coworker who is ostensibly going to be using it on her PC here at the office. I actually installed this today on a Windows machine and on my Mac running OS X 10.7 Lion. Yay for Preview.app! between that and B圜PDFMetaEdit and AEBPR (both of which work perfectly under WINE and Crossover) and the Canon stuff I'm sorted It's a bit of a pain, but it's free so if you don't want to do it often it's useful. The location of the temp files is listed somewhere in one of the dialogues. It can do page rotation, ordering and OCR on PDFs as you create them from a scanner, but it can also be fooled into doing OCR on existing stuff if you convert it to bitmaps, scan the correct number of 'pages' (just select a tiny scan area for speed) then replace all its temp files with the ones you actually want. One other thing, which I use both on Mac and Windows (or at least did before I escaped Windows - Yay!) is that if you have a Canon scanner, the CanoScan ToolBox or MX Navigator software are both very handy. I've seen Acrobat 8 even go for <60 on ebay if you catch the right moment. Vista requires 8.1+) you might consider an old/cheap copy of acrobat. Depending what version of Windows you have (i.e.

If you're looking at pay-for stuff, Jaws PDF Editor is quite capable. I'm sure there's loads of other stuff out there, but having trawled through the mound of crapware a long time ago those were the things I settled on. is a program that decrypts PDFs when you don't know the password, in many cases anyway, without taking ages cracking the password. Rotation, watermarking and a few other things can be done with Just ignore the Editor programme - it's a freeware thing that also installs a shareware programme you can just ignore. (if you haven't, I use PDFCreator, which is an open source thing)ī圜PDFMetaEdit is handy for deleting, reordering pages and adding metadata etc Assuming you've got PDF creation sorted already.

Preview on windows like on mac