# Extract Content

Extracting content copies selected parts out of a PDF without converting the whole document: its text, embedded photos, tables, links or attached files. Digitally created PDFs contain real characters that can be copied as they are, whereas scans contain only page images and need OCR to recover the words.

## Tools

- OCR PDF (Coming soon): Recognize the text in scanned PDF pages so it can be searched, selected and copied.

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