Scanned PDF to Word Text Recognizer

Scanned PDF to Word Text Recognizer is an OCR application that recognizes characters of scanned image PDF and saves the recognized text into Word documents. Besides PDF, it supports image files of BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, and TIFF.

Scanned PDF to Word Text Recognizer is free for downloading and installing. You may get free evaluation of limited times. Install and run the application, you will see the main interface as shown in Figure 1.

On the toolbar, select File -> Open to open a PDF file. Make sure that the PDF is an image PDF. Then the PDF will be displayed in the left part of the interface window. Now you can select Command -> OCR to recognize the text in the image PDF.

If you just want to recognize one page of the PDF, please use the navigation arrow buttons on the side bar to navigate to the page. Then use Command -> OCR to perform the OCR operation.

If you want to recognize text in a part of the current page, just draw a rectangle in the page to specify the area. Perform the OCR operation, and then the application will recognize only the text in the selected area.

If you want to recognize the text in all PDF pages, select Command -> OCR All Pages.

Figure 1

Before OCR the image PDF, you may process the image to make a better recognition rate. Select Image -> Deskew to deskew the image. If the input image is of low resolution, sometimes like screen snapshot, please enable Image -> Screenshot Mode. The image resolution can be viewed by Image -> Properties. A higher resolution image will give a better recognition rate.

After recognizing the text, select File -> Save, and choose the target format as Word (doc, docx). Then Scanned PDF to Word Text Recognizer has recognized the text of image PDF and saved the text as a Word document.

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