Edit Scanned and Image-Based PDFs
Turn scanned or image-based PDFs into fully editable documents while preserving the original layout and formatting.
PDNob OCR
Turn scanned PDFs and images into editable, searchable PDFs with precise OCR. Preserve formatting, correct skewed pages, extract text instantly, or sharpen blurry documents.
Achieve precise text extraction, even from difficult fonts, blurry, or low-quality scans.
Maintain the original layout and formatting, ensuring a clean and professional output.
Effectively recognize and preserve images and graphics within PDFs.
Say goodbye to messy scans - high-precision recognition with original formatting
PDNob intelligently identifies headings, paragraphs, tables, and formatting, then outputs results that retain the original layout. No more reformatting or misplaced content.
Blurry, skewed, or noisy scans don’t stand in our way. Our system automatically corrects alignment, sharpens text, removes background noise, and cleans up images before OCR processing.
OCR accuracy depends heavily on text clarity. PDNob uses embedded and pre-configured fonts to accurately recognize special typefaces, symbols, and multilingual text.
Handling mixed languages, dates, amounts, or symbols? PDNob accurately recognizes Chinese, English, bilingual text, currencies, dates, and special characters.
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OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is a technology that converts scanned documents or images containing text into editable and searchable digital text. In PDNob PDF Editor, OCR helps you turn non-editable PDFs into fully editable files.
PDNob OCR supports scanned PDFs and image formats such as JPG, PNG, and TIFF, allowing you to convert them into editable PDFs or text files.
Our OCR recognition currently supports the following languages: Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, and Turkish.
PDNob OCR achieves an accuracy rate of over 99% and works reliably even on skewed, blurred, or spotty documents. Its core technology is AI-OCR with deep learning, which intelligently corrects skew, removes noise, and restores unclear strokes. Combined with ADRT® technology to preserve original formatting and offline processing for speed and privacy, PDNob delivers high-quality recognition on challenging documents.
No. PDNob PDF Editor's OCR feature can be processed locally, ensuring your files remain private and secure without continuous internet access.
Yes. After OCR is completed, you can directly edit, copy, modify, or export the recognized text in your document.
Yes. You can process multiple files at once using OCR, which greatly improves efficiency when handling large volumes of documents.
No. OCR generates a new editable version of your document while keeping the original file unchanged, so you can compare or reprocess it anytime.
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