Create a smart, searchable PDF with selectable text by scanning a paper document to PDF and using Acrobat.
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With Acrobat and your scanner, you can convert a paper document directly into a PDF file.
Acrobat supports Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) drivers and TWAIN scanner drivers on Windows.
In Windows, you can use other presets according to your judgment, or you can use the Autodetect Color Mode and let Acrobat identify the content type of the paper document.
Only scanner drivers that enable the Native Interface mode of Hide Scanner allow for preset scanning.
You can use the Scan button in Windows to create a PDF if your scanner has an installed WIA driver.
To view the available options for scanning a paper document to PDF with Acrobat, navigate to All tools > Create PDF and select Scanner.
To scan a paper document to PDF on Windows, choose either the Autodetect color mode or a preset.
If prompted, select Scan More Pages, Scan Reverse Sides, or Scan Is Complete after making the necessary settings.
To improve or optimize a scanned PDF, open the document that was converted to a PDF by selecting All tools > Scan & OCR > Enhance scanned file.
On Windows, select All tools > Create a PDF > Scanner, then select a preset scan setting to configure scanning presets.
To save the preset, make any necessary adjustments to the settings and choose Save Settings.
Consult the scanner documentation for available options when troubleshooting scanner issues when scanning with Acrobat.
Choose All tools > Scan & OCR > In This File and enter the page range and language for text recognition to identify text in previously scanned documents.
By choosing All tools > Scan & OCR > In multiple files and adding the files or folders to be recognized, you can recognize text in multiple documents.
To add a text layer to the PDF that can be copied or searched, fill out the Recognize Text – General Settings dialog box and click OK.
Select All tools > Scan & OCR > Correct recognized text to fix recognized text errors. Then, make your corrections in the Recognized As box located in the Secondary toolbar.
After making each adjustment, click Accept, and when you’re done, click Close in the Secondary toolbar.
Let’s investigate how to turn a scanned image into a document.
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Let’s investigate how to get a free Word conversion from a scanned document.
Do you need to create editable Word files now that you scanned paper documents and saved them as PDFs?
Open PDFCreator Online in your browser and take the following actions to convert a scanned PDF to Word:
- Choose the web application. Word to PDF
- You can drag and drop your scanned PDF file onto the grey field or select it from your computer.
- Select "Convert."
- You can download your file that has been converted to the docx format after a short while.
Editing your scanned PDF files is simple. All you have to do is use a PDF converter such as PDFCreator Online to convert your PDF to Word.