Articles from Free PDF to Word Blog How to Convert Scanned PDF to Text in Mac OS X Lion/Windows 2012-02-10 10:02:10 Emma
Have scanned a book into PDF format and hope to copy the text from it? It is indeed a good idea to quote content from a book because it does not need you to type word by word. However, since this PDF is a scanned one, which means you cannot export PDF to text as what you could on a native one. Fortunately, you’re able to achieve your goal by following the details below. When exporting scanned PDF to text is mentioned, some people will say Adobe Reader will do both in Mac OS X Lion and Windows. Yes, as far as I know that Adobe Reader 9 or later has the feature “Save as text” in the File menu. However, it only works for native PDF. As for converting scanned PDF to text, you need a PDF with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology. OCR now is the main stream technology used for digitalizing files, like scanned PDF and images. And now in the market, only a few OCR based professional PDF tool to convert scanned PDF to text. A famous one could be Adobe Arobat. However, its high price ($199 for Windows & more than $400 for Mac OS X) is the fact that blocks people from using it. Is there a best Adobe Acrobat alternative? Yes, absolutely. You can try Wondershare PDF Converter Pro for Mac. With the built-in OCR, only in 4 steps you have scanned PDF to text conversion done perfectly. For Windows users, please explore Wondershare PDF Converter Pro>>
1. Download and install the scanned PDF to text converter. After the conversion, launch the app. 2. Tick the checkbox for “Convert scanned PDF documents with OCR” at the bottom of the main interface and go to PDF Converter Pro>Preference…to select the right language for the output documents.
1. Drag and drop the scanned PDF file to the app. To save time, you’re allowed to perform batch conversion. Up to 200 scanned PDF documents can be uploaded and converted to text at one time. 2. Select Text as the output format by clicking the setting icon on the panel for each scanned PDF and hit the Convert button to finish the conversion.
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