When the PDF Is a Scan
Key points
- OCR
- Word
Steps
- Scanned PDFs have no text, so Put PDF Text into Word cannot use them.
- First turn them into text with the OCR tool.
- Paste the text into Word.
Tools that go well with this
- Extract Text from PDF: Pull the text out of a PDF to copy or save.
- Read Text from Images and PDFs (OCR): Turn text in images and scanned PDFs into text.
- Extract Text from a Word File: Extract the plain text from a Word file.