
Select the PDF you want to convert to the DOCX file format. Follow these easy steps to turn a PDF into a Microsoft Word document: Click the Select a file button above, or drag and drop a PDF into the drop zone. You can also simply drag-and-drop it into the box.THL Toolbox > Scanning & OCR > How to OCR a PDFHow to convert a PDF to Word online. Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout flat document, including the text, fonts, graphics, and other information needed to display it.Upload a TXT file from your computer, or through a cloud storage service such as Google Drive or Dropbox. The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format used to present documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.


It will take some time, depending on the number of pages in the PDF. The OCR process will start. Pull down the Document menu, point to "OCR Text Recognition," and then point to "Recognize Text Using OCR…" and "start"
For more information, see Zach Rowinski's assesssment. No THL staff have used this and we have no experience with it. Be sure to check by doing a search on "the" or another word in the file and make sure it returns results.To OCR roman text with diacritic characters, investigate using Abbyy's FineReader ( ).
