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# OCR skill

> Extract text from document images and export processing results to various file formats.

OCR skills in ABBYY Vantage let you extract text from document images and export processing results to files of various formats. Photos of documents, scanned digital copies of documents, PDF files up to 3000 pages, and others can be used as source images. Once your documents have been processed, you will be able to use full-text search to find information, as well as edit the text and formatting (for some export formats).

To optimize the speed and quality of text extraction, each OCR skill can be set up according to a specific user's needs. You can do the following:

* Specify a custom name and description for your OCR skill
* Select specific recognition languages
* Enable handwritten text recognition if needed
* Set up preprocessing for source files, for example, to crop document borders or correct their orientation
* Configure the PDF Processing Mode to control whether Vantage uses an embedded PDF text layer or performs OCR
* Extract barcodes that appear on your documents
* Specify export file formats for processing results in ABBYY Vantage

## Related topics

* [Set up an OCR skill](/vantage/documentation/skill-designer/ocr-skill/set-up-ocr)
* [PDF Processing Mode](/vantage/documentation/skill-designer/ocr-skill/pdf-processing-mode)
* [OCR activity](/vantage/documentation/skill-designer/process/ocr-activity)
* [Technology Core versions](/vantage/documentation/technology-core-versions)
* [Skill Catalog](/vantage/documentation/skill-catalog/skill-catalog)