Scanned PDFs are images of pages, not editable text. Learn why OCR matters before PDF to Word or Excel conversion.
Scans are images
A scanned PDF can look like a normal document but contain only page images with no selectable text.
OCR creates text
OCR analyzes the image and creates text that can be copied, searched, or converted into Word and spreadsheet formats.
Review OCR output
OCR can misread numbers, names, columns, and punctuation, so review important converted files carefully.