Q. Does the Library have OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Software available?

If you have a PDF file that does not have searchable text, using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software can help. The computers in Scholars' Lab (Shannon Library, 3rd Floor East Wing) have Adobe Acrobat (Creative Suite Edition) and ABBYY FineReader, both of which can be used to convert PDFs to text-readable (OCR) versions.  

If you a hard copy of a book or document, the easiest way to scan and OCR at the same time is to use of the self-service scanners located in any of the following libraries: Brown, Clemons, Fine Arts, Music, or Shannon.  

No OCR software is 100% accurate, so you will have to check carefully after using the OCR tool for errors. Most modern fonts don't present a problem with the OCR, but for older titles or documents with broken type, more manual correction may be needed.