PDF2XL CLI Online Help

Scanned PDF Document

PDF documents come in two flavours: regular, and scanned.

Regular PDF documents are usually created by using Acrobat, or by printing a document into PDF using a specialized printer driver.
Scanned PDF documents are documents created from an image of a scanned page, wrapped as a PDF file for viewing purposes only.

Scanned PDF documents can be distinguished from regular PDF documents by trying to selected words using the Text Selection mode of PDF2XL CLI. If the words are selected as you click-and-drag, this is a regular document. If they are not, this is probably a scanned PDF file.

PDF2XL CLI does not support data conversion from scanned PDF documents. In order to convert data from scanned PDF documents, you will need to purchase PDF2XL-OCR.