How to make a scanned PDF file searchable? I bought an Adobe service which I thought allowed me to do this

[ynmymos]

How to make a scanned PDF file searchable? I bought an Adobe service which I thought allowed me to do this, but I do not see any instructions how to do it.

[Anubha Goel]

Hi,

When using Adobe ExportPDF online service, it will run OCR itself when converting any PDF to other file format.

It also depends upon the quality of the scanned document, so it might be possible that it does not make the file searchable.

Regards,

Anubha

[pwillener]

If you just want to change the scanned PDF to have searchable text, then you need Adobe Acrobat and perform character recognition (OCR).