ScanSoft PDF CONVERTER STANDARD 3-HELP Online Help Manual page 40

The built-in OCR
OCR is the process of extracting text from an image. This image can result from
scanning a paper document, opening an electronic image file or a PDF file.
Images do not have editable text characters, they have many tiny dots (pixels)
that together form character shapes. These present a picture of the text on a
page.
From character image ... ... to editable text
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