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Get Word to Recognize Characters from Images using PDF

Do you know that you can get Word to recognize characters from image files? This is a round-about way, but does a pretty good good job with clear images. It also makes other text editable.

The trick? Make a new document with your image(s) and save as a PDF. Then Close Word. Then Open Word and open the PDF ... Word will prompt to convert to editable text.

You can also open a PDF without images in Word to select and edit the text.

make Word convert whatever it can to characters, even from images

To save a Word document as a PDF, do File, Save As ... choose PDF for the file type.

make Word save as a PDF file

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Word can do character recognition from images, and surely there must be a more direct way ... however, this works!

If you know a better way, please share, thanks.

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