Earlier this month, we announced the release of Nitro PDF Professional OCR, the latest iteration of Nitro Pro, now available with Optical Character Recognition (OCR). With the same award-winning feature-set that earned Nitro Pro multiple awards, including ‘Product of the Year’ from PC User™, Nitro Pro OCR gives you the ability to create editable, searchable PDF files from your pre-existing image- or paper-based documents.

In this post, we’re going to talk about Nitro Pro OCR – if you want a little more background on Optical Character Recognition, and how it applies to your PDF files and the text within them (or, lack thereof!), you may want to take a look at Richard Crocker’s previous blog post ‘How text works in OCR’d and scanned PDF files’

OCR has long been the single most requested feature in our Customer Connect forum, where our users can suggest, request, and vote for the inclusion of features in Nitro products. As Gina O’Reilly, our SVP of Sales & Marketing said – “it was never a question of whether or not we add OCR to our feature set – simply, how quickly can we build it?”

So, we did!

Utilizing I.R.I.S.® technology, Nitro Pro OCR streamlines the document consolidation and archival process, allowing you to create fully-compliant, easily-archived PDF/A documents from your existing library of printed documents and scanned images.

Have a contract sitting on your desk that you’d like to archive electronically? Simply place it in your scanner, open Nitro Pro OCR, and select ‘Create PDF from Scanner’ to create an editable and/or searchable PDF file in one simple step.

Working on an image-based PDF file, with hundreds of pages, and want to locate a particular portion without manually searching the entire document? Just click ‘Recognize Text’ from within the menu, and let OCR do the searching for you.

Nitro Pro OCR is available for immediate purchase, and existing users of Nitro Pro can upgrade– click to find out more.