How to Copy Text From a Scanned Document & Send to Other Programs
- 1). Open the image or PDF file whose text you want to copy in Adobe Acrobat Professional.
- 2). If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Professional, any version of Adobe PDF file management software will do. You can download the Acrobat free trial program from the Adobe website (see Resources).
- 3). Select "Document" and "OCR Text Recognition" from the toolbar at the top of the Acrobat program.
- 4). Check the "All Pages" option on the pop-up window to get text from the entire document, or select the range of pages to use. Change the output language by clicking "Edit" and selecting a language from the drop-down menu next to the words "Primary OCR Language." Click "OK" twice.
- 5). Highlight the text you'd like to transfer, right-click and select "Copy." Open the program you'd like to use the text in, right-click and paste the text into that program, or put the text into another document to save for later.
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