Scan & OCR

  • Breathe new life into your paper files and move closer to a fully electronic workflow. Use Nitro Pro to turn your paper and image-based files into fully searchable and editable PDF files.

  • Turn paper into PDF

    Make paper files easier to share, copy and archive by converting to PDF.

    Streamlined paper scanning.
    Scan paper and recognize text all in one task. And with auto-feed scanners, large collections can be converted quickly and easily.
    Append as you go.
    Complete conversion jobs faster by appending files during the scanning process.

  • Make any PDF file fully searchable and editable

    Use optical character recognition (OCR) technology to turn all image-based text into full selectable, searchable and editable text.

    Recognize text in different ways.
    Make your PDF files fully searchable and selectable, while retaining their original appearance. Or replace all image-based text with fully searchable, selectable, and editable text.
    Process digital image archives.
    When content is already in the form of image-based PDF files, easily run our OCR technology across each file to make it fully searchable.
     
    Re-purpose and edit paper content.
    Go beyond turning your paper into searchable and editable PDF files. Use Nitro Pro’s exporting tools to reuse your scanned text content in Microsoft Word and Excel.
    Multi-language support.
    Scan and recognize text in the following languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch1.
     
    1To OCR documents using Italian and Dutch languages requires the respective language version (Italian or Dutch) of Nitro Pro 7.