Template:OCR Instructions for Acrobat Pro

OCR, or Optical Character Recognition, is a technology that enables you to convert different types of documents—such as scanned paper documents, PDF files, or images captured by a digital camera—into editable and searchable data. Copiers installed by ITS at Swarthmore default using to OCR.

However, if you need to execute OCR, you can use Adobe Acrobat Pro to convert the material.

1. Open the document in Adobe Acrobat Pro.
2. Open the Tools tab.
3. Select Scan & OCR.
4. Select Recognize Text.
5. Choose the relevant settings, such as language.
6. Click on the Recognize Text button.

For more details, explore Adobe's article How to scan and get text from an image with OCR.