

You can then double-click on any word to place a red box around it and correct its recognition. Doing this will not change your document's appearance to readers. If you check the box for Review recognized text at top left, Acrobat will display the searchable text layer instead of the page image. There may be recognition errors that are not in red boxes.Type in the recognized as box to correct as needed, then click Accept to save your edit: Click on any text in a red box to see a comparison between the text’s image and what it is being recognized as.



Click In This File in the dropdown menu.Click Recognize Text in the top toolbar that appears.Click Scan and OCR in the righthand panel:.Here are the steps to running and correcting OCR in Acrobat: You can download Adobe Acrobat Pro DC for free as part of Adobe Creative Cloud. This is potentially useful if the Ally tool that's built into Canvas is unable to generate an "OCRed PDF" version of your document in its Alternative Formats menu. The OCR process creates searchable text, an important accessibility feature for digital documents. You can run and correct the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) process for PDFs in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC.
