Free web-based converter PDF-to-Word turns static PDF files into edit-friendly Word documents with surprising, reliable accuracy. It's in closed beta right now, but Lifehacker readers can get in early ...

PDF documents are widely used for sharing information since they preserve formatting and quality across various devices. However, when it comes to editing PDFs, things aren’t always convenient. Many ...

There are a number of reasons why you might want to extract the text from an image. Perhaps you have a business card and you want to enter the details into your Contacts, maybe you just don’t fancy ...

If you have a physical copy of a document but want to edit it to either share online or print out again, the process can seem complicated. Since scanned documents are usually saved as images or PDFs, ...

Sometimes, you scan a document but want to make changes to it but do not know how to; there is a feature in Microsoft Word that can extract text from images, especially if it’s an image of a document.

SimpleOCR is free software with an outdated user interface. But if you tend to value brains more than beauty, then this one might be something that you are looking for. It is software that may be ...