Scan & OCR

Convert scans or images of documents into searchable, editable PDF files, and adjust the quality of the resulting file in Acrobat DC.

1. Select Scan & OCR from the Tools center.

   

2. Select a file.

   This file could be a photo of a document, or an already scanned file created using a scanner or the Adobe Scan mobile app. Or, you can scan a document to create a new file using a connected scanner.

   

3. Choose Scanned Document or Camera Image to enhance the document.

4. Click Enhance to clean up the image.

   

   Acrobat automatically recognizes text from scanned documents.

5. Select Recognize Text to manually recognize text on image files.

   

The file is now a searchable, editable PDF file.

Click to download a PDF of the Scan & OCR tutorial.