Recognize text in a scanned PDF file

PDFs created from scanned images, have some limitations, but Acrobat has some powerful tools that help you overcome these. When I search in this scanned PDF, Acrobat offers to perform text recognition on the file. When I click, yes, I can choose to process the text on just the current page or the entire document. And I need to specify the language that the scanned text was written in. With this workflow the appearance of the document doesn’t change at all, but now actual searchable text is stored in the document along with the image of the text. So now I can search for words and phrases.

If you want to proactively recognize the text in multiple PDFs all at once, just select the Scan & OCR tool. Then click, Recognize Text, and choose, In Multiple Files. All the files you add here will be made searchable in one fell swoop.

And that was 60 second Acrobat. -