Using Adobe Acrobat to do Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

This is a short video on how to use Adobe Acrobat

to do optical character recognition (OCR) on your

pdf documents. The first thing you want to do is open

your pdf document in Acrobat and when you have opened

it in there you want to check and use the little cursor

tool here and this will allow you to see if your document has

already been OCR'd and therefore there will be no need

to do it. You can check that by trying to highlight text

and if it does like it's doing right now where it draws a box or you click on it and it highlights the

whole page then you'll know that this page has not been

OCR'd correctly. this process is the same on both the Macintosh

and the PC so once you've determined your document has

not been OCR'd you'll go up to your document tab in the top

and you'll go down to OCR text recognition and then

recognize text using OCR. When you click on that you

are going to bring up a recognize text box. You want to

recognize all pages in your document and you don't need to change

any of your other settings here to begin with and just press

OK. Whats going to happen is its going to run through your pages right now

and do this and now once you've done that you can

now highlight the text and so you know that this text has been

OCRd and what this will do is let a screen reader be able to

read this and so a person with a disability will be able to use the document