ExactCODE GmbH released ExactScan 2 on Thursday. ExactScan 2 is a professional quality scanning utility for use with the Mac.

With this release, ExactScan Pro grows to a product-family including Professional version with OCR and Barcode recognition to create searchable document on the Mac, or just to convert existing files into searchable PDF, multi-page PDF or TIFF. Together with the Spotlight indexing services built into Mac OS X, this feature forms a document management solution suitable for small-office and home-office environments.

Other new features in this release of ExactScan include:

• New feature in Pro version: To convert existing files into searchable PDF, multi-page PDF or TIFF
• New feature to automatically scan this profile on document placement (ADF only)
• New feature: Automatic crop from Flatbed source
• New behavior: Re-aligned the paper size on ADF / Flatbed source change
• Improved paper format handling with larger ADF scan area than Flatbed
• Improved Simplex - Duplex - Cancel Button handling
• Improved UI size adjustments to better fit translations and visual appearance
• Updated paper size naming
• Updated language translations

ExactScan 2 Professional is available for US$153 and the standard version of ExactScan 2 comes for US$25. An upgrade from the ExactScan 2 standard version to the new Professional is available for just US$40.