It has become an undeniable fact that PDF is nowadays more and more widely used as a popular Internet file formats, which can be encrypted. However it is not easy to edit to change. Online documents are now generally taken to this file format. But sometimes change the content of the pdf, when in trouble. General pdf reader tool does not modify the pdf documents from scratch. Such as Adobe reader, foxit reader, and so on ... but some reader can also modify pdf documents, such as adobe's acrobat reader.

So when we occasionally need to edit the scanned PDF files, particularly when you want to edit some paper files by scanning it to PDF (which is simple and easy , convenient). When you are getting a scanned PDF, you could require this content to use in your computer directly, and a common pdf converter pro for mac could not distinguish the file. If you really should use the content in the scanned PDF, surprisingly this is pretty easy to do when you have some OCR (Optical character recognition) converter tool. Free download it first, then follow the tutorial to convert scanned PDF to text on Mac.

How to Convert Scanned PDF Files to TXT on Mac

Step 1: Perform OCR
Launch the program, on the bottom window, check the "Convert scanned PDF documents with OCR" option. Then this software will automatically perform the OCR.

Step 2: Import Scanned PDF Files
On the top menu, click File -> Add PDF Files to import the scanned PDF files. This software also supports drag-and-drop PDF files to the main window. This method will save a lot of time for you.

Step 3: Output format settings
Click button next to the PDF files, a window will pop-up, from the Format drop-down list, select .txt as an output format. You can also set the page range to meet your needs.

Step 4: Convert Scanned PDF to Text on Mac
All settings are OK, simple press Convert button to start scanned PDF to txt conversion on Mac. Few minutes later, you can get the converted PDF files on your Mac local. You can open it to check the quality.

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