Typing and re-doing scanned articles and data? It could be a drag to re-do all that hard work. Googling the terms “scan to text” to find a short cut won’t help much because it will only give you a step by step guide that makes things more complicated. Why follow these so-called “hacks” when you can simply convert it in a tool with just one click?
Yes, that’s right! There’s actually a tool that can convert scanned PDF files into text and it can help you get all the data that you’ve been trying to re-type and copy-paste as a .TXT file. The tool you need is an OCR tool, short for Optical Character Recognition.
What is the OCR tool?
From that previous article, we’ve learned that scanning saves us a lot of time and effort in converting paper documents into digital ones. We’ve also learned that scanned items become image-like files and OCR tools help these documents become readable and searchable. When we say “searchable” it means that the computer can recognize the characters on the file as letters and numbers.
