NitroPDF Professional OCR

Breathe new life into your paper files and move closer to a fully electronic workflow. Use Nitro Pro to turn your paper and image-based files into fully searchable and editable PDF files.

Turn paper into PDF
Make paper files easier to share, copy and archive by converting to PDF.

Streamlined paper scanning.
Scan paper and recognize text all in one task. And with auto-feed scanners, large collections can be converted quickly and easily.

Append as you go.
Complete conversion jobs faster by appending files during the scanning process.

Make any PDF file fully searchable and editable
Use optical character recognition (OCR) technology to turn all image-based text into full selectable, searchable and editable text.

Recognize text in different ways.
Make your PDF files fully searchable and selectable, while retaining their original appearance. Or replace all image-based text with fully searchable, selectable, and editable text.

Process digital image archives.
When content is already in the form of image-based PDF files, easily run our OCR technology across each file to make it fully searchable. 

Re-purpose and edit paper content.
Go beyond turning your paper into searchable and editable PDF files. Use Nitro Pro’s exporting tools to reuse your scanned text content in Microsoft Word and Excel.

Multi-language support.
Scan and recognize text in the following languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch. . .

View, create and combine PDF files

• Open, read and edit PDF files from other PDF applications, like Adobe® Acrobat® and Adobe Reader®.
• Preview PDF files in folders and Microsoft Outlook, without opening Nitro Pro.
• Open PDF files in Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Firefox.
• Display PDF files as thumbnail document previews, instead of static PDF file icons.
• Create PDF and PDF/A documents from almost any kind of file.
• Convert and combine files into a single PDF document.
• Convert entire collections of files to PDF in one batch.
• One-button PDF creation from Microsoft® Word, Excel®, and PowerPoint®.
• Convert Microsoft Word files into professional PDF files that include bookmarks, links, metadata and security.

Scan and OCR PDF files

• Scan paper documents to PDF.
• Convert paper- and image-based files into searchable and editable PDF files using optical character recognition (OCR) technology.

edit PDF files

• Insert and edit text, adjust font, size, color and more.
• Reflow text in paragraphs. Adjust line height, width and alignment of paragraphs.
• Edit images — insert, resize, rotate, crop, flip, replace, arrange, delete, and extract.
• Edit image properties — brightness, contrast, color space, and resolution.
• Edit pages — insert, delete, rotate, crop, extract, and replace.
• Split pages of PDF documents based on page groups, page ranges, and bookmark structure.
• Add/remove headers, footers, and watermarks.
• Add/remove Bates numbering to a collection of files.
• Add and edit bookmarks and links.
• Auto-create bookmarks based on document text formatting and headings.
• Auto-create links based on keywords and page numbers.
• Optimize, shrink, and repair PDF documents.
• Edit document properties including metadata and initial view settings.

reuse content from PDF files

• Convert PDF to Microsoft Word, while retaining graphics, text formatting, paragraphs, columns, tables, headers and footers, and more.
• Create different kinds of Word files depending on how you need to reuse the content.
• Convert PDF to Rich Text Format for use in other word processing applications.
• Automatically extract all tables from PDF files and covert into easy-to-use Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.
• Extract all text and images from PDF documents.
• Extract entire pages as images.
• Copy text and pictures directly from PDF pages.
• Convert batches of files.

review & annotate

• Emphasize text content with the Highlight, Underline, Cross Out and Replace text tools.
• Add Sticky Notes, Text Boxes, and Call Out annotations.
• Add freehand drawings with the Pencil tool.
• Add text to anywhere on the page with the Type Text tool.
• Add drawing shapes, including lines, arrows, rectangles, ovals, polygons and clouds.
• Apply stamps to pages, choosing from pre-defined stamps, custom images or customized text.
• Insert dynamic stamps containing date, time and author information.
• Attach documents and other files to your PDF pages.
• Add explanatory text and other feedback to your markups.
• Sort and manage comments.
• Filter comments based on type, author, status, subject and more.
• Summarize comments for easy viewing alongside page content. View the summary as a PDF or print it for paper-based reviewing.

sign off & approve

• Apply your handwritten signature directly to pages.
• Apply approval stamps (including time and author stamps) to files such as “Approved” and “Reviewed.”
• Create and apply reusable one-click digital signature profiles.
• Sign and certify PDF files with 1024-bit RSA encrypted digital signatures.
• View the full signing history of document workflows.

protect yourself & your information

• Secure documents with passwords and certificates.
• Encrypt with 40-bit, 128-bit, and 256-bit level security.
• Apply restrictions on printing, copying, and altering PDF documents.
• Create and apply reusable one-click security profiles.
• Apply a secure copy of your handwritten signature directly to pages.
• Remove hidden information such as annotations, bookmarks, form fields and metadata.
• Permanently remove (redact) sensitive information, including names, numbers, codes, pictures, illustration and metadata.
• Protect yourself from potentially malicious web sites and web-based PDF files.

PDF forms

• Save, print, and submit forms.
• Fill in interactive AcroForms- and (static) XFA-based forms.
• Fill in non-interactive forms using the Type Text tool.
• Apply your handwritten signature directly to forms.
• Design forms.
• Add, edit and run JavaScript.

enterprise ready

• Streamlined deployment wizard for fast and easy rollout of custom installations everything from workgroups to entire sites.
• Integrate with popular document management systems (DMS), including SharePoint, Hummingbird, iManage, and Worldox.

• Desktops: Windows® XP, Windows® Vista, Windows® 7 (x64 editions supported)
• Servers: Windows® Server 2003, Windows® Server 2008, Windows® Server 2008 R2 (Terminal Server and Citrix XenApp/Access Essentials configurations supported.) For more on server-side deployment, check out the Citrix and Terminal Server software page.
• Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster processor
• RAM: 512 MB system memory (1 GB recommended)
• Display: 1024x768 screen resolution
• Installer size: 43 MB
• Installation footprint: 163 MB
• Available space: Up to 520 MB of available hard drive space
• Installation Footprint: 200 MB
• Microsoft Office 2003 or newer (required for Microsoft Office integrated features)
• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (or above)