You may not think about them until you need them, but PDFs run this show. They’re the 3rd most popular file type on the internet, beating JPEGs and GIFs. PDFs defeated cat GIFs, and they’re one of the ...

Got a bunch of scanned documents in PDF format but lack for good text-converting OCR software? Google is now indexing their text conversions of PDFs, which means anyone with access to open web space ...

Photo Scan is a handy Windows 10 app for those times you need to pull text from images. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Say you ...

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology allows editing text in a graphic image or scanned document. It is widely used to convert books and documents into electronic files, computerize an office ...

I recently purchased a scanner which came with some software that does a great job at OCR. Better than I expected. However, after the document is scanned and OCRed, the resulting PDF is just an image ...

Free web-based converter PDF-to-Word turns static PDF files into edit-friendly Word documents with surprising, reliable accuracy. It's in closed beta right now, but Lifehacker readers can get in early ...