Perform OCR on an image PDF

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June 12, 2021
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How can I perform OCR (optical character recognition) on an existing PDF using an iPad? I have an Adobe subscription, but I can't figure this out. It appears that the Adobe Scan app will do this if I use the device to take a picture of a page, but I don't know how to do this to an existing PDF. I have a PDF of a 20-page document that was scanned using an office copier/printer. I know the text will not be highlight-able or editable without OCR. I can't figure out how to perform the OCR on an existing document.

Thanks in advance!

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Harsh Vardhan Pareek

Community Manager

Hi @FredGreco

Hope you are doing well.

As you have mentioned that you want to run OCR on a scanned PDF file. In Adobe Scan you get the feature to scan an image and that runs OCR on the current scan, but because it is a scanned PDF you can run OCR only on the PC (Win/Mac). You can run OCR in Acrobat DC application by using Scan and OCR tool.

For more detail refer to this link: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/acrobat/using/scan-documents-pdf.html

Let us know if that helps.

Thanks,

Harsh

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mcgaposchkin

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Let me just say to the ADOBE team - this is a huge liability. I purchased the subscription in order to do this work remotely. Why cannot it be done on the iPad. Please add this feature.