How to do OCR on a PDF document? [duplicate]

I found a list of free OCR software for Windows.

  1. FreeOCR
  2. Tesseract
  3. WeOcr Tesseract Web Interface
  4. GOCR
  5. Windows GUI for GOCR
  6. OCR Desktop
  7. Simple OCR
  8. TopOCR

However, these programs need an image input, not a PDF input. For this, try a PDF-to-JPG converter.


I found an interesting idea that lets Google do all the work of OCR'ing the PDF files for you.