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Use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to extract the text from the image of the document. 

  • For existing PDF documents,

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  • upload your file on the convert inaccessible course material page and choose the "accessibility conversion" option.  
  • For new scanned documents, all department Cannon printers have been set to automatically scan documents using OCR.  

To check that your scan was OCR'd, try copying some text from document and pasting it into Word.  If you can successfully paste the text you copied, your document has been OCR'd.  If this is not the case, it is most likely that the setting on the printer has been changed and you should open a ticket with the help desk explaining that the Cannon copier is not OCRing documents.

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