Recognize Text in a PDF using Adobe Scan App for iOS
Hi, everyone! This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today’s quick video, I’ll show you how I convert a PDF file that doesn’t see any text, to one that recognizes text using the Adobe Scan app. I have to read a lot of PDFs for my graduate school program. I like to pull them into the Goodreader app on my iPad and then highlight, comment, and annotate away. Sometimes though, I will pull in a PDF and find that none of the GoodReader annotation features work because the PDF isn’t recognizing any of the text in the document. It’s just treating that text like an image. This happened recently with a 33 page document. I really like to be able to highlight passages while I’m reading a PDF, since I save all of the highlighted bits in a spreadsheet — you can see my video on that if you are interested. I tried a bunch of options and apps — one offered to convert PDFs to Word documents, but it just made each page an image within the Word ...