With optical character recognition (OCR) in Adobe Acrobat, you can extract text and convert scanned documents into editable, searchable PDF files instantly.
With optical character recognition (OCR) in Adobe Acrobat, you can extract text and convert scanned documents into editable, searchable PDF files instantly.
Retyping, re-formatting, rescanning — there’s never been anything easy or quick about updating a scanned text file. Until now. Learn how Adobe Acrobat can turn your scanned files into editable PDF documents instantly, with editable text and customised fonts that look just like the original file.
Retyping, re-formatting, rescanning — there’s never been anything easy or quick about updating a scanned text file. Until now. Learn how Adobe Acrobat can turn your scanned files into editable PDF documents instantly, with editable text and customised fonts that look just like the original file.
With optical character recognition (OCR), Acrobat works as a text converter, automatically extracting text from any scanned paper document or image file and converting it to editable text in a PDF.
Rest easy knowing Acrobat can recognise text and its formatting. Your new PDF will match your original printout thanks to automatic customised font generation.
You can even work with your new PDF in other applications. Simply cut and paste or export it to a Microsoft Word (DOCX) document, other Office file (PPT or XLS) or a plain text document (TXT file).
Preserve the exact look and feel of your documents and restrict editing capabilities by saving them as smart PDFs that include text you can search and copy.
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Start converting your scanned Word documents, TXT files, images and more into fully editable PDFs with our free online converter tool. Keep your formatting, export your document and more — at the moment, right from your browser.
Start converting your scanned Word documents, TXT files, images and more into fully editable PDFs with our free online converter tool. Keep your formatting, export your document and more — at the moment, right from your browser.
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