

Many users like the online web tool because it's fast and easy to access when they're in the middle of a task. So choosing whether to carry out your PDF file conversions online or offline is really down to personal preference. Which option should I choose?Īll of iLovePDF's PDF to Office Converters guarantee the same top quality in their file conversion results. In iLovePDF Desktop, the software will detect if your file is a scanned document and automatically activate OCR. If you're converting a scanned PDF to Word online, just make sure to hit the OCR button before converting. This is a feature available for Premium users in both the iLovePDF online web tool and Desktop software.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a technology used to scan and detect text from an image, such as a scanned paper document. Trying to extract text from a PDF that's an image? If you want to convert a scanned PDF document to Word, you can use OCR.
