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.

How to OCR a document:

To scan and OCR a physical document:

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).