Does the library support Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for digitized documents?

Q. Does the library support Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for digitized documents?

Yes. If you need to scan documents and/or create full-text, searchable documents from digitized images of documents, read on!

A reservable scanning and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) workstation is available across from the main service desk on the ground floor of Hillman Library, which has specialized software installed, including:

ABBYY FineReader PDF (powerful tool for converting, editing, and performing optical character recognition on document scans and PDFs)
Adobe Acrobat (PDF editor with optical character recognition features)

Answered By: Dan Kaple

Last Updated: Aug 06, 2025 Views: 1

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