How To Extract Data From Scanned PDFs

August 22, 2018 Geekopedia 0 Comment Able2Extract, File, Format, OCR, Paperless, PRDF. Extract, Scan, Software, Technology, tool, Word

Since the “paperless” concept emerged, many companies and businesses around the world embraced the approach and jumped on the bandwagon. As a result, everyone is leaning towards a work environment where paper documents are surplus. Everything is being scanned and transformed into digital form. By doing so people are helping to preserve the environment, saving money and storage space and enabling easier file sharing among colleagues and clients.

However, there are many predicaments surrounding this approach. One of the main problems is that scanned documents are usually archived as PDFs. Essentially, these scanned documents are images and any information they contain can’t be searched, edited or copied. Most people opt for the least practical and most consuming solution – retyping the text from the document.

Fortunately, there is a more effective solution to this. Instead of manually retyping the content from a scanned document, you can extract it in a matter of seconds with Able2Extract Professional, a powerful PDF converter and editor equipped with the advanced OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engine.

Read on to learn how to convert scanned PDFs to MS Office and other file formats.

Step-by-Step Guide to Extracting Content from Scanned PDFs

To make information from scanned PDF documents usable, you need to convert it to a file format you can easily work with such as MS Word or Excel. In this case, we will show you how to convert scanned PDF to Word. Here is how to do it in 3 easy steps:

Step 1: Open the PDF file in Able2Extract Professional. The software will recognize that you uploaded an image-based PDF and automatically perform OCR on it.

Step 2: Choose whether you want to convert the entire scanned document or just a section like two or three paragraphs. You can do this by selecting the All or Area option in the toolbar.

Step 3: The final step in the extraction process is selecting the output file format. There are many to choose from depending on your needs. For example, Microsoft Word.

The converted file will be automatically opened in Microsoft Word right after conversion.

Besides the ability to handle scanned PDFs, Able2Extract Professional has many other features that make it a good fit for both professional and casual users. Beside the PDF conversion, it offers many other PDF management features like PDF creation, PDF security, PDF content and page editing, PDF form filling and editing, etc.