Adobe Reader: OCR conversion from PDF to Text works
- Start the Adobe Reader as usual.
- Then click the top of the program click "file" > "Open" and select the respective document.
- The tool menu expand to the right, click on the arrow pointing to the left, or alternatively click "tools".
- Select there the Option "to edit PDF file" and wait until the process is complete.
- To PDf-convert file now in a Text document, choose "file" > "Save as" and enter a name for the document. Under "file type" you can choose any file extension, preferably,".txt" for text files.
- After you have clicked on "Save", will be converted into the PDF file in Text.
OCR with Adobe Reader
This practical tip is based on Adobe Acrobat 2015 under Windows 7. You will learn in the next practice tip on how you can PDF files compare can.
