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No. Pagehound Pro is a one-time purchase of $39.99. No recurring fees, no subscription. Your license includes all v1.x updates forever — if a v2 ever ships, it will be a separate product with discounted upgrade pricing for existing customers.

The free version is not a trial — it runs full-quality OCR with no time limit and no signup. It processes single documents, up to the first 5 pages per document. A one-time purchase unlocks unlimited pages plus batch processing, automatic rotation/deskew/perspective correction, custom vocabulary, watch-folder automation, presets, PDF/A-ready export, and exportable processing reports.

Pagehound Pro is a one-time purchase of $39.99, available both on the Mac App Store (with Family Sharing) and directly from novetool.com via Creem (up to 3 Macs). Both unlock the same Pro features.

No. Recognition runs entirely on your Mac using Apple's on-device Vision engine — nothing is uploaded, no account is required, and no telemetry is collected. The app even shows on-screen that a session produced zero network requests. The Mac App Store build contains no networking code at all.

Pagehound requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later. It is a Universal binary that runs natively on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs. The first run takes about 8 seconds to load the recognition model — this is normal.

Yes. With Pro, pages are set upright automatically, tilted pages are straightened, and keystone perspective from phone photos is corrected — all previewable page by page before you commit. Four strength levels are available, and the conservative default never erases faint stamps or signatures.

No. Pagehound never re-encodes your original page images, so file size stays essentially unchanged and your pages look pixel-identical. Originals are never overwritten — output goes to a new {name}_searchable.pdf — and bookmarks and outlines are preserved.

On clean printed text, recognition is excellent. On degraded scans, preprocessing improves results, and low-confidence words are flagged so you know where to double-check. Pagehound is built to make documents searchable, not to replace manual data entry — always verify critical numbers against the original image, which stays untouched.

More than 30, including Simplified & Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Russian, French, German, and Spanish. Select multiple languages or use auto-detection. A language-correction switch can be turned off for serial numbers and codes.

The free version processes the first 5 pages per document; Pro removes the limit entirely. Files beyond 2,000 pages or 500 MB are rejected with a clear error instead of spinning for hours. Password-protected PDFs are supported.

For the direct (DMG) version, your license key is delivered by email immediately after purchase and activated inside the app. Verification is offline — the key is Ed25519-signed and checked locally, with a 30-day grace window, so no online account is required. One license covers up to 3 Macs, and you can unbind a Mac yourself at any time. For the App Store version, the purchase is tied to your Apple ID — no license key needed.

The features are identical, and both unlock all Pro capabilities. The App Store version uses Apple's StoreKit and supports Family Sharing. The Direct version checks out securely through Creem, and its license activates on up to 3 Macs with self-service unbinding. Choose whichever purchasing method you prefer.