Run OCR on the seller’s handwritten disclosure scan to convert it into editable text, correct obvious date and name re…
Open your scanned PDF document in Adobe Acrobat.
Go to the Tools menu in the top left menu bar.
Select Scan & OCR from the list of tools.
In the Scan & OCR pane, click Recognize Text.
Choose In This File to apply OCR to the open document.
Click Recognize Text to start the OCR process.
Save the PDF to retain the searchable text layer.
Best practiceFor best OCR accuracy, scan your documents at 300 dpi and avoid extreme brightness settings.
After OCR, you can search, select, and copy text from your scanned PDF as if it were a normal document.
This runs in the Acrobat app - there is no separate API for this task.
Scan & OCR changes the handwritten words in your document into computer text. This means you can then use the search function in Acrobat to find any word, just like you would in a typed document. It creates a hidden layer of text that your computer can read.
Choosing the correct language helps OCR work much better. If you select the wrong language, Acrobat might misread words because it uses different rules for each language. For example, it might confuse letters or symbols that look similar in different languages, leading to many errors in the recognized text.
An image-only page is like a photo of a document; it has no real text the computer can read. OCR works on these pages to find and convert the text in the image. A page with renderable text already has computer-readable text, even if it looks like a scan. OCR will not run on these pages because there is no image text to convert. Acrobat only applies OCR to pages that are purely images.
Yes, the Adobe PDF Services API is designed for automated tasks, including OCR. You can send multiple PDF documents to the 'OCR PDF' endpoint. This lets you process many files quickly and efficiently without opening each one in the desktop application, making it great for large batches of documents.