Welcome to nitro today we'll run through a brief overview on using optical character recognition in nitro pdf pro for mac let's get started the optical character recognition feature or ocr allows you to transform your scan documents and not only make them searchable but also editable to begin open the scan document in nitro pdf pro a prompt will appear to let you know that the document's been detected as a scanned document and recommends running ocr choose the appropriate language for the document and choose to ocr a page or the entire document once the ocr is complete you can go to the view menu and choose ocr layer to see what nitro pdf pro has translated from the document you can fix any errors by clicking into the text and correcting it note that this only changes the ocr layer which is useful for searching and copying and doesn't change what the actual document looks like to change the document itself go back into the document view click on the edit tool and highlight the text you want to correct choose correct text on the toolbar and make the adjustments because we've run ocr onto the document we now have the ability to search or copy the content and use it elsewhere that's all for today see you next time.