OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition and means automatic text recognition – for example in images and scanned PDF files. This is handy when you only have an invoice as a scan but want to search, copy or reuse its text.
1. Open a PDF
Open the desired PDF file with a double-click. The file preview opens in the PDF viewer.
2. Enable OCR
In the toolbar at the top, click Enable OCR. Aktenplatz then recognises the text in the document. After that you can select and copy text passages, search the document or reuse important content – for example for a Word or Excel file.
Note: Text recognition only works on documents that actually contain text (e.g. scans of documents). For pure images without text, no text can be recognised.