OCR an existing PDF

If your PDF contains scanned images or non-selectable text, you can use Nitro PDF Pro’s Optical Character Recognition (OCR) feature to convert it into a searchable or editable document. OCR makes it easy to extract and work with text from scanned files.

How to OCR a PDF:

1. In Nitro PDF Pro, open a PDF document you want to OCR
2. On the Review tab, click the OCR button in the Documents panel
3. In the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) dialog, choose whether the output text should be Searchable or Searchable and Editable
4. Click the Options button to select a target page range, and click Advanced to configure OCR preferences
5. Click OK to recognize the document’s text

How to OCR selective pages in a document:

1. From the navigation tabs (displayed along the left side of the Nitro PDF Pro window), click the Pages tab
   
2. Right-click on the required pages in the Pages pane and select OCR Pages… (hold down Control to select many)
   
3. In the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) dialog, choose whether the output text should be Searchable or Searchable and Editable
4. Click the Options button to select a target page range, and click Advanced to configure OCR preferences
5. Click OK to recognize the document’s text