The results of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) are somewhat dependent on the quality of the electronic document, so here are some tips to help you improve OCR results:

Using Nitro Pro you can scan paper documents directly to PDF, with the option of using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for enabling document searching and markup.

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

On the Home tab, in the Create group, click the PDF button, then From Scanner In the Scan Settings dialog, select your scanner device Select the sheets to be scaned, and then specify the file’s destination In the Image compression section, configure the preferences for the document’s images: Check Make document searchable to enable the OCR plugin, and click the Advanced button to set your preferences Click Scan to launch your default scanning software Click Scan to begin the scanning process (some scanner drivers require you to Close the dialog once the scan is complete) Click Finish option to end your scanning job, or select the Scan front of sheet two to continue scanning If you scanned multiple pages, clicking Finish will open the scanned document in Nitro Pro

The I.R.I.S. OCR plugin fully integrates with Nitro Pro allowing it to recognize text from scanned pages, or from images in open PDF documents. The OCR utility is fully customizable, with options to configure options such as skewed image correction, to image compression settings. You can also enable text recognition for scanners directly on the Create PDF From Scanner dialog, to automatically create PDF documents from scanned pages with text that can be modified or searched.

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).