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How to OCR entire PDF file?

eli2k
Community Beginner ,
Jun 09, 2017 Jun 09, 2017

Is there a way to run OCR on an entire PDF file? I have old scanned documents with hundreds of pages that I would like to make searchable.

Right now, if I go to Edit PDF, it will run OCR on each individual page that I scroll to. But that is inefficient. What are the steps to run OCR on the entire PDF?

Thank you.

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Bernd Alheit Community Expert
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Jun 09, 2017 Jun 09, 2017

Use Tools > Enhance Scan

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Jun 09, 2017 Jun 09, 2017

Use Tools > Enhance Scan

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Jun 11, 2017 Jun 11, 2017
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Thank you. It's working like a boss.

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