Free OCR to Word
OCR terms, explained simply
Understand recognition, scanned PDFs and editable document export.
OCR
Optical character recognition identifies text in an image and turns its letter shapes into electronic text.
Scanned PDF
A PDF can contain pictures of pages rather than selectable words. OCR is needed to extract editable text from those pictures.
DOCX and TXT
DOCX is an editable Word document format. TXT stores plain text. The default DOCX export keeps positioned text, pictures and editable table cells. TXT stores only the wording.
Recognition language
The language model helps interpret the letters and words on a page. English recognition is included; use only additional models actually available in your installation.