Adobe Acrobat Pro’s optical character recognition feature converts scanned documents into editable PDFs. Just click on the Edit PDF tool to create a fully editable copy with searchable text.

Nano is my text editor of choice on both the Linux and macOS platforms. How many times have you read my words saying, “open so-and-so configuration file in the nano editor, locate entry X and ...

There's nothing worse than opening a PDF and realizing you can't use the search function or even highlight text. This typically happens when a PDF was created by scanning a paper document—it's ...

Why and How to Make Your PDFs Searchable By Amy Cavender May 25, 2017 As I noted last week, PDF is my preferred file format for document sharing, for a number of reasons.

Finding a particular document in your filing cabinet can be a tedious task – unless you use a document scanner. These handy tools can use text recognition to record text on a paper document and ...