18-04-2019 18:27 via theverge.com

How to use Adobe Acrobat Pro’s character recognition to make a searchable PDF

If you’ve ever downloaded a scanned document, you know the frustration that comes with trying to search for specific words and phrases. If you want to quickly find text to read through — say, a certain explosive report that was just released as an unsearchable PDF — you can use Adobe Acrobat Pro’s optical character recognition to convert scanned documents into fully editable PDFs with searchable text.
Just open up your PDF in Adobe Acrobat, and click on the “Edit P
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