Adobe Acrobat Pro’s optical character recognition feature converts scanned documents into editable PDFs. Just click on the Edit PDF tool to create a fully editable copy with searchable text.

Adobe takes things a step further, however, and applies optical character recognition (OCR) to the document once it’s scanned to transform the printed text on your document into digital text.

How to Make a PDF Searchable. Because you can view PDF files on a variety of computers with different settings and software, they are useful for sharing documents with clients, employees and other ...