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Possible to convert scanned pdf to word without losing formatting on Windows 11?
Hello, New to Windows 11 and need some assistance here. I have a couple of PDF ebooks and found out the content are scanned as the text is blurred and not able to be edited. I used to work with onli...
You can try OneNote for converting scanned PDF to Word if you have a premium version. The key is that there is no need to install additional applications, it is a pure system built-in function of his simple operation of the newbie-friendly!
- Directly drag the PDF to the OneNote window, release the mouse, the PDF will be automatically inserted.
- Invalid drag, click "Insert" → "File Printout", select your PDF file and confirm the insertion.
- After insertion, the PDF will become Each page becomes a picture
- Click the PDF image PDF is multi-page, each page should be right-clicked separately
- Select "Copy Text from Picture".
- OneNote will automatically recognize the text in the PDF image and convert scanned PDF to Word free. After that, copy the text to the clipboard.
- Open Microsoft Word and press Ctrl + V to paste to adjust the formatting.
Disadvantages:
1. The formatting may be lost after PDF to Word conversion, OCR only extracts plain text, do not retain the original PDF layout (such as tables, paragraph indentation, etc.).
2. Does not support handwriting recognition, if there is handwritten content in the PDF, it may not be recognized or recognized incorrectly.
3. Need to manually adjust the text, sometimes OCR recognition will be more line breaks or spaces, you need to adjust the format in Word.