Recognize the text in PDFs with OCR
Need to reuse information from a scan or photo of a document? The optical character recognition (OCR) in PDF Expert lets you turn scans into text, so you can copy, highlight, and search it.
What is OCR and how it can help you?
Some PDFs like scanned books or receipts aren’t searchable and don’t allow you to select and highlight text. Optical character recognition (OCR) in PDF Expert recognizes text in scanned files, with the highest level of precision and impressive speed.
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Extract text from images
Save time by easily extracting and copying text from any scanned document or photo by running it through OCR in PDF Expert.
Highlight the text in scans
Recognize the text in scanned books or magazines, so you can annotate them just like any other PDFs.
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Make scanned PDFs searchable
Save time and search through all your scanned documents thanks to fast and precise text recognition.
Recognize 20+ languages
The OCR in PDF Expert supports English, German, French, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Simplified, and Traditional Chinese, Portuguese, and other languages.
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How to recognize text in a PDF using OCR
Watch this short video to learn how to recognize text in scanned books or magazines, so you can copy, highlight the text or search for any word.
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