The new ExactScan Pro version includes an OCR engine to create easily searchable documents with a fingertip on-the-fly. Just select the language from your document in the OCR preferences and start to scan - some number crunching and a few seconds later you receive your searchable document.
Together with Spotlight, the built-in indexing service of Apple's Mac OS 10.5 this already forms a quite powerful document management solution for small office / home office (SOHO) environments.
Supported OCR languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
Additionally barcode recognition is also built-in, and allows to find the recognized codes in your digitalize documents. Common uses of barcodes in the work-flow include automatic identification of products, delivery or invoice IDs.

Supported barcodes: EAN, UPC, CODE25, CODE39, CODE128

System Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5, or 10.6. The OCR feature requires an Intel Mac while the remaining Pro features are also available on PowerPC.

Version 2.12.6:
* Added new option for smooth, uniform colors
* Added support for various new scanners
* Improved support for various scanners
* Improved auto-crop and de-skew
* Improved scan speed for some new high speed scanners
* Improved minimal compression quality
* Improved predefined paper size choices
* Improved TWAIN Bridge
* Improved some user interface localizations
* Fixed some progress status information to appear correctly
* Fixed some black & white PDF images to compress correctly
* Many other improvements

In addition to all regular ExactScan 2 improvements:
* Added 11 new OCR languages
* Improved OCR recognition, accuracy and stability
* Improved barcode recognition accuracy by over 10%
* Fixed an OCR issue on Mac OS X 10.5 and earlier