Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software unlocks the information “trapped” in a PDF or TIF image. OCR software “reads” all the characters in a document and transfers the content to a searchable and editable format.
OCR software lets you turn “image only” PDF or TIF files into searchable documents and extract important data fields.
- OCR PDF or TIF images and make all the text searchable
- Convert PDF or TIF images to Microsoft Word, Excel or Access
- Classify PDF or TIF images by document type
- Extract specific data fields from PDF or TIF files and save to a spreadsheet or database
- Convert PDF or TIF images to other image formats
OCR PDF to Excel
- By converting a PDF document to Microsoft Excel® spreadsheets become available for further editing or calculation.
- The original row and column structure is preserved, allowing you to easily format and work with numerical data from price lists, analytical reports or newspaper articles, directly in Excel.
OCR PDF to a Database
- By extracting key metadata from a PDF document, both data and images can be sent to a database where both can be used for workflows, reports, transactions or archival.
OCR PDF to XML
- Converting PDF documents to XML can save significant amounts of time and effort by extracting required information from the image and converting it to a usable XML format.