How to do text recognition on Adobe Acrobat Reader DC

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January 7, 2020
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How do I run a text recognition on my pdf documents on Adobe Acrobat Reader DC? My app version is 2019.021.20061.

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Reader doesn’t do that. You need to pay for Acrobat.

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Click on the “Edit PDF” tool in the right pane. Acrobat automatically applies optical character recognition (OCR) to your document and converts it to a fully editable copy of your PDF. Click the text element you wish to edit and start typing. New text matches the look of the original fonts in your scanned image.