We tested out the best OCR software for scanning your paper documents and archiving them as digital PDF files. Staggeringly useful, then - but with so many different apps and programs out there ...

We list the best OCR software, to make it simple and easy to scan and archive your paper documents as digital PDF files. Staggeringly useful, then - but with so many different apps and programs ...

Open your document in Acrobat (available on macOS and Windows), go to Tools > Scan & OCR > Recognize Text. Once the text has been catalogued, go to Tools > Export PDF and export as an Excel file.