Optical Character Recognition, or OCR, is a software process which enables images of printed text to be translated into machine-readable text. OCR is most commonly used when scanning paper documents to create electronic copies, but can also be performed on existing electronic documents (e.g. PDF).

You can learn more about OCR by reading any of the following topics:

• OCR preferences
• Scan and OCR a printed document
• OCR an existing PDF file
• Troubleshoot OCR