Can PaperPort be used to convert a non OCR PDF to OCR PDF?

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Published on 2011-02-08T01:35:42Z Indexed on 2011/02/12 7:27 UTC
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My scanner came with the following software:

  • ScanSoft PageViewer
  • ScanSoft PaperPort
  • ScanDirect
  • I believe it also comes with a basic version of OmniPage

I'm not sure which of these programs is the one that actually performs the OCR.

When I scan a document, it can perform OCR on it and convert it to a searchable PDF. Is there any way I can take an existing image or PDF file and run the same OCR engine on it in order to create a searchable PDF?

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