Character recognition in PDF scans

Create searchable PDF files with OCR

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February 27, 2023

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You can easily make your scanned PDF searchable by doing an optical character recognition with this online tool. Furthermore, the Online PDF Converter offers many more features. Just select the files, which you want to merge, edit, unlock or convert. Supported formats

	Depending on your files you can set many options (most of them can be combined!)
	- You can select particular pages, rotate PDF pages, reorder pages, split files and much more (just have a look at the buttons right of the selected file) - A PDF protection for printing, copying and editing is removed automatically (without password). For read-protected PDF files the correct password is required. - Many other options can be defined, like header/footer, layout and compression.

Finally, please click on 'Convert'. Do you need help? Documentation of all features

Mode: How:

(the pages are taken alternately from the two documents, e.g. if you have scanned your documents double-sided)

convert to:

with character recognition in

Optical character recognition in images (OCR): in

Insert pages as images

Advanced OCR: apply character recognition not only in scans, but in the whole file content

Please note:

Your files will be splitted during conversion. (Download as ZIP archive)

Preferences:

The following preferences affect the compression of all images/graphics. The file size depends on the quality and resolution values.
If you need a small file size, decrease the values.

Quality of images

The lower the quality, the smaller is the file size.

Resolution of images

The lower the resolution, the smaller is the file size.

Color / black-and-white

Images in black-and-white reduce the file size additionally

Zoom setting on startup:

This can be changed in the PDF Reader additionally.

Page view on startup:

This can be changed in the PDF Reader additionally.

Bookmarks / Navigation Window:

Do you want to display bookmarks/headings like a table of contents in the PDF?

PDF annotations & highlighting:

(only applied for PDF to PDF conversions)

The following preferences affect only conversions from image files (jpg, gif, png, bmp, tif)

Page layout:

Size and orientation of the PDF page

Images per page:

How many images should be displayed on a PDF page?

Image size:

How big should the image be displayed on the PDF page?

Position:

How should the image be positioned?

Horizontal:

Vertical:

Page margin:

How big should be the space between image and page margin (at least)?

Inner margin:

How big should be the space between the images?

Orientation of the images:

How should the image be rotated?

Security options:

Printing, editing and/or copying of PDF pages can be locked separately.
Additionally, a password can be set to prevent opening of the PDF file by everyone.

Create password for opening

Lock printing

Lock copying

Lock modifying

In this section you can define a header and footer. These are displayed on the top/bottom of each PDF page.
In addition to your own text, you can use a page numbering with the placeholders below. By clicking on a text field, a template box is displayed. The placeholders are replaced by the according page number automatically while converting the file to PDF.

Header:

Left:

Middle:

Right:

Footer:

Left:

Middle:

Right:

Placeholders for the page numbering:

Current page number with (x), Number of pages with (y)Example: Page (x) of (y)

Initial value for page numbering:

Placeholder for the file name:

Filename (without extension) with (file),

Filename (+ extension) with (file).(ext)

Font size:

Font family:

Color:

Beginning on:

Page

Margin top and bottom:

Margin left and right:

Cover margins with white color(for better readability or to overlap already existing text in this area)

top: mm

Left:

Right:

bottom: mm

These settings affect the conversion from Excel to PDF and from PDF to Excel.

Decimal separator

determines the formatting of decimal numbers

Language

for the date formatting

Define a new PDF layout (e.g. multiple pages per sheet) or change an existing layout (e.g from A3 to A4).

PDF page layout:

Format, size, pages per sheet...

with border

Printer settings:

Print mode / paper feed

Please read the help

Printing guide.

Reading direction:

In which direction should the pages be arranged?

How are the pages arranged?

Page layout:

Size and orientation of the PDF page

Content size:

How big should the content be displayed?

Position:

How should the content be positioned?

Horizontal:

Vertical:

Outer margin:

The space between content and page margin in the original file

Inner margin:

The space between the pages in the original file

Reset

Uploaded files are never saved. All data is deleted after conversion. Learn more

Please report all problems and bugs in the Feedback-Section to improve the quality of the converter. Thank you!