Two Shortcomings Away from Five Stars

First off, this app is really awesome if you need to manipulate PDF documents, at all. It extracts, splits, saves, and more. I use it daily. It makes my work life so much easier and more efficient.

I won’t spend the time going over all it can do, because there are two pretty nagging issues that potential purchasers should be aware of in case it makes a difference.

1. The “Save As” and “Extract” dialogs are not sticky. If you extract part of a PDF (which I do daily) and want to save it somewhere other than the source folder (original is saved on Desktop and want to save multiple extractions elsewhere), you’ll have to repeatedly select the destination over and over again for each save or extraction. Tiresome, but I get around that with Default Folder X. Be aware that if you don’t use another app, you’ll have to manually select the save destination each time.

2. The option to delete blank pages in the PDF file doesn’t seem to work. I have clearly blank pages in my PDF scan, but PDF Genius doesn’t detect them as blank. This might be user error, and it might not. I don’t know.

I have contacted support about Issue #1 and they were fairly responsive, confirming that the save destinations are not sticky at this time, but they’ll look at adding that behavior in a future version. Right now, the app is deliberately set to revert to the source folder. Not a deal breaker for me, since I use (and love) Default Folder X to fix this annoyance.

I have not contacted support about Issue #2, but I will be - in case it’s my error.

Overall, I really like this app. It’s made my workflow so much better than before. Had I known about this app earlier, I would’ve used it right away. Totally worth the $10 or so when on sale!

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