PAdES Studio vs FixMyScan

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PAdES Studio compared with FixMyScan
Detail	PAdES Studio	FixMyScan
What it does	Digital PDF signatures for macOS	Clean, searchable PDFs from scanned books for e-readers
Stage	Not given	Not given
Founded	Not given	Not given
Based in	Not given	Not given
Pricing model	Freemium	Paid
Pricing	Create your first 5 signatures free, then unlock unlimited signing with a one-time purchase	Personal plans: $9.99 per week (billed weekly) or $79.99 per year (billed yearly, equivalent to $6.67 per month). Team plans start at $29 per month (billed yearly as $348) for up to 3 people and 20,000 pages per month. Department plan: $69 per month (billed yearly as $828) for up to 10 people and 50
Key features	Keychain signing with support for CryptoTokenKit smart cards Visible signature with optional image, signer name, and signing time RFC 3161 timestamping and long-term validation (LTV) Signature inspection with status, certificate chains, and DSS material review Multiple signatures as independent document revisions Local document processing without server uploads Support for PAdES-B-B, PAdES-B-T, PAdES-B-LT, and PAdES-B-LTA profiles	Automatic margin removal and page cropping Page straightening for tilted scans Two-page scan splitting into single pages Yellow and grey paper conversion to white OCR in 19 languages File compression and size reduction Works with Kindle, Kobo, reMarkable and other e-readers Greyscale preservation for images and photos Integration with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok
What makes it different	Real digital signatures that preserve original PDF bytes, not just image stamps Incremental PDF updates preserve existing signatures as independently verifiable All document processing stays local without server uploads Works with macOS Keychain and supported smart cards without PKCS#11 limitation Verification always unlimited while signing has free tier option	Single crop applies to all pages automatically Processes up to 1,000 pages in minutes without installation Preserves page numbers and citations from original book Works on all major e-readers with one PDF output
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	37 no change since last check	Not checked yet no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	7	0
Citation Flow (Majestic)	16	0
Referring domains (Majestic)	5	0

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