Acrobat can recognize text in scanned documents using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Recognizing text in your PDFs allows you to quickly search them.

1. Right-click your PDF file. Choose Open With > Adobe Acrobat DC.
2. In the top bar, click Tools then type Recognize. Choose Recognize Text from the results.
3. In the lower part of the Enhance Scans toolbar that appears, click the Recognize Text button.
4. Wait while the document is searched for text.
5. Go to File > Save to save the changes to the file.