Easy apply optical character recognition (OCR) to your PDF by following these steps:
Our online Acrobat optical text recognition tool lets you easily search your text and even highlight any recognised sentences or words.
OCR lets Adobe Acrobat use text recognition to search for words or key phrases saving you time.
Optical character recognition lets you use screen readers, greatly increasing accessibility.
It may sound complex but don't worry, you can access our suite of Adobe Acrobat tools on a variety of browsers. That means no downloads or installs to use our optical text recognition.
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We've been innovating the PDF format since its incept, which means you can trust the quality of our tools.
OCR can convert any static PDF image into scannable text. To check if it's worked, simply try searching for a phrase in the document. Try our Adobe Acrobat Pro seven-day free trial to use Adobe OCR technology in other image file types, including JPG, TIFF, and PNG files.
Our Acrobat Pro free trial also lets you access other PDF editing features, too. Edit your PDF, increase security with PDF passwords, collect signatures, and convert file types to and from PDF, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents.
Acrobat OCR online tool recognises text in a PDF document. You can make text editable, searchable, and selectable from other formats, including image file formats like PNG, JPG, and TIFF, through Adobe Acrobat Pro, on our 7 day free trial.
Using the Acrobat Pro free trial gives you access to advanced PDF features. You'll be able to edit PDF text and images and convert to and from PDF, including converting text files (TXT) and Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word documents.
