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OCR an existing PDF
To OCR a document:
1. In Nitro Pro 9, open a PDF document you want to OCR
2. On the Edit tab, click the OCR button in the Text/Images panel
3. In the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) dialog, choose whether the output text should be
Searchable or Searchable and Editable
4. Click the Options button to select a target page range, and click Advanced to configure OCR
preferences
5. Click OK to recognize the document's text
To OCR selective pages in a document:
1. From the navigation tabs (displayed along the left side of the Nitro Pro 9 window), click the Pages
tab
2. Right-click on the required pages in the Pages pane and select OCR Pages... (hold down Control
to select many)
3. In the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) dialog, choose whether the output text should be
Searchable or Searchable and Editable
4. Click the Options button to select a target page range, and click Advanced to configure OCR
preferences
5. Click OK to recognize the document's text
Nitro Pro 9 - User Guide