With optical character recognition (OCR) in Adobe Acrobat, you can extract text and convert scanned documents into editable, searchable PDF files instantly.

What does it mean to OCR a PDF?

OCR stands for “Optical Character Recognition.” It is a technology that recognizes text within a digital image. It is commonly used to recognize text in scanned documents and images. … The file could be a JPG/TIFF or PDF, but the new electronic file may still be only an image of the original document.

How do I enable OCR in PDF?

Pull down the File menu, choose “Save as,” and add “-ocr. pdf” to the file name. Pull down the Document menu, point to “OCR Text Recognition,” and then point to “Recognize Text Using OCR…” and “start” The OCR process will start.