The document cannot be used for any text-based processing such as automated bookmarking and linking, text search and extraction, keyword-based redacting and etc. Why Recognize Text? If the document does not have any searchable text, then it significantly limits its functinality. The searchable text is added behind the page image, so the visual appearance of the Processes each page and creates an invisible layer of text that can be searched or copied and The 'Recognize Text' operation (also known as 'Optical Character Recognition' or OCR) Originally, the scanned PDF documents do not contain any searchable text.Įach page is just an image. Recognize Text in Scanned PDF Documents Introduction This tutorial shows how to make scanned PDF documents searchable using 'Recognize Text' operationĪvailable in the Adobe® Acrobat® software.
