OCR PDF
Make a scanned PDF searchable. Text is recognised in your browser and added back as a real, invisible text layer — the page looks unchanged.
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FAQ
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OCR (optical character recognition) reads the words in a scanned page image and adds them back to the PDF as real, invisible text. The page still looks exactly the same, but you can now search it, select text, and copy from it.