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This is the question which arises in the minds of many people. The answer is ‘Yes’. At the time of converting PDF files, PDF nature does matter. The following article discusses about the two types of PDF files. Native PDF Files These PDF files are generated from electronic sources, like a spreadsheet, a report generated via computer, a Word document etc. These files have an inner structure which can be read & interpreted. These files contain characters which have electronic character designation. Most of the times, PDF creator software takes information from the Word document structure & retain everything in the created PDF files. This is why a text-based document can be word-searched easily. Conversion from native PDF files relies on electronic character designation & provides reliable results. There are a large number of PDF converter software available which take data from native PDF files & move it to Excel, Word and other formats. Scanned PDF Files All documents which have to be transmitted are not in electronic form. However, conversion of physical paper documents into electronic form needs to be done. Here, scanned PDF files come into play. How scanned PDF files are created? It is very difficult to retype the information present in the paper documents in electronic forms & convert it into PDF. The better alternative is to scan the documents with the help of a scanner. The scanner captures the image of physical paper digitally into electronic format. It does not reconstruct every word’s character… rather it takes the snapshot of the document. The snapshot is later converted to PDF with the help of scanner, and the result is a scanned PDF file. For converting scanned PDF files into editable formats, the PDF converter with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technique is required. This technique will be helpful to analyze the images of all characters and match them to electronic character-based files. Due to this, it becomes difficult to find out that characters recognized with the help of OCR software are actually the characters on the scanned file. Here, a point is to be noted that the OCR output quality is affected by issues like low image quality of scanned file, mixture of fonts present in scanned file & underlined / italicized fonts that may blur the shape and quality of individual characters. Looking for a PDF converter software program that handles scanned PDF files is little difficult as compared to looking for native PDF file converter. The professional version of any PDF converter will be capable to handle scanned file conversion as well as native file conversion. Alice Stephen created a product named Docsmartz which is a PDF to word converter and PDF Creator software. It converts PDF files to word and any editable file to PDF easily. Alice discusses the ease of using this software and how it helps you with the documentation.
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