The convenience of searching digital text
The digital age has transformed many different aspects of the way that we work with text. First of all, digital files have made the same texts available to millions of people with just a single click. In general, the digital world has completely changed document accessibility. The ease with which we can read almost any text of our choosing was unthinkable not very long ago. Searchability is another feature that has transformed work with digital files. Text-searchable content is extremely easy to work with, allowing readers to locate very specific pieces of information in complex, lengthy texts. Thus, passages that might previously have taken hours to find can now be found within seconds.
Using scanned PDF documents
Scanned PDF files are found in many different contexts, and are a popular format in dozens of different industries. If a scanned PDF document contains text, then the best way to handle it is to first make it text-searchable. For example, a scanned contract becomes much easier to retrieve from an archive if the information within it is searchable, so that an employee looking for a specific record can find the exact portion of text that he or she needs.
How to make a scanned PDF document searchable
In order to make a scanned PDF document text-searchable, you would require OCR software that can recognize scanned text, enabling the computer to save a scanned document as a text file. OCR stands for optical character recognition, a technology that uses the optical properties of text characters to identify them. The first step to creating searchable scanned PDFs would be to install OCR software on your computer. After adjusting the settings, simply select the files that you would like OCRed, and wait as the results appear. You are left with fully searchable, editable PDF files.
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