2022-09-06 10:19:44 • Filed to: How-To-Windows • Proven solutions
There are times you want to edit a scanned PDF document. Perhaps you want to change the font size and images or need to extract text from scanned PDF documents. In this article, we'll show you the most efficient way to extract text from a scanned PDF with Wondershare PDFelement - PDF Editor.
PDFelement helps you extract text from PDFs easily and allows you to perform OCR to edit your scanned PDF file or extract text from a PDF image using PDF text extractor tools. Plus, the OCR feature is multilingual, meaning it can recognize over 20 global languages.
The following steps outline how to extract text from a PDF using PDFelement.
Download and install PDFelement, and then open the PDF files that you wish to extract text from by clicking on the "Open files" button.
Once you've opened the file, click on the "Edit" tab, and then click on the "edit" icon. Now you can right-click on the text and select "Copy" to extract the text you need.
Once you have installed PDFelement, open the program to perform OCR on your PDF file. Click on "Open files" to select the scanned file and open it.
After you have opened the file on the program, it will detect that it is a scanned document and suggest that you need to perform OCR on it. Click on the "Perform OCR" option in the top blue bar, then select an OCR language and click "OK." It will be set to English by default, but you can change it.
Once you have performed OCR, you can then extract text from your PDF. To do so, go to the "Edit" tab and click the "Edit" switch button on the top right. Select the text you want to extract and right-click on it to choose "Copy."
Alternatively, you can also convert your PDF to Word format. Click on the "To Word" button under the "Convert" tab. In the pop-up window, click on the "Save" button to convert your PDF to Word format. You will now have your PDF in an editable Word document that will allow you to extract content from your newly converted file.
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