You can select the language used in your file to improve the OCR result. If you have a scanned PDF and need it to be editable please choose Convert with OCR. If your PDF contains editable text choose Convert. Some systems are capable of reproducing formatted output that closely approximates the original page including images, columns, and other non-textual components. Upload your PDF file and adjust the optional settings to match your needs. Advanced systems capable of producing a high degree of recognition accuracy for most fonts are now common, and with support for a variety of digital image file format inputs. Our Word Converter even creates doc files from PDF created using scanned documents or photos.
Easily edit the contents of the processed file and reverse convert it using our PDF tools. OCR is a field of research in pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and computer vision.Įarly versions needed to be trained with images of each character, and worked on one font at a time. Easily create editable PDF files from Google Drive or Dropbox by directly converting to Microsoft Word files. Widely used as a form of data entry from printed paper data records – whether passport documents, invoices, bank statements, computerized receipts, business cards, mail, printouts of static-data, or any suitable documentation – it is a common method of digitizing printed texts so that they can be electronically edited, searched, stored more compactly, displayed on-line, and used in machine processes such as cognitive computing, machine translation, (extracted) text-to-speech, key data and text mining. Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene-photo (for example the text on signs and billboards in a landscape photo) or from subtitle text superimposed on an image (for example from a television broadcast).