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Scan a paper document to PDF and apply OCR using Acrobat XI

By Adobe – December 15, 2014

In this tutorial, learn how to scan to PDF and OCR PDF. Learn how to scan and convert paper documents and forms to PDF and get a digital file you can edit and search. Make scanned text searchable automatically with optical character recognition (OCR). To make sure all scanned text is recognized correctly, Acrobat checks for any potential errors and gives you an opportunity to fix them.