![]() Word documents that have been saved as PDF will not need the OCR process, they retain their text, although not all of their Word structure and formatting.įinally, documents converted from pdf (or really any other format) to Word can be tough to edit because the conversion process never has a one-to-one matching of how formatting is done. If you simply want to write on the document (but not in it) you can add a Text Box floating on top of the document layer, whether or not it has been put through the OCR process. Once you have text, you can edit it with Word. ![]() ![]() Most scanner software comes with an OCR component as well. This is built into Adobe Acrobat and is also in Office OneNote. This is a process known as optical character recognition. In that case, you need to convert the picture to text. Just as you can't look under the hood of a picture of a car, you can't edit a picture of a document. However, some pdf documents (from scanners mostly) are really pictures of text rather than the text itself. Since Word 2013, Word has had the ability to directly open pdf document.
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