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Make scans searchable

Recognise the text of scanned pages, then compress.

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When to use it

A scanned document is a picture: you cannot search it or copy from it. This recipe reads the text of each page (only in files without a text layer, so nothing is read twice), adds it invisibly under the image and compresses the result.

The same steps, one tool at a time

Without Pro, open these 2 tools in order and pass each result to the next: the same outcome, for free.

  1. Text recognition (OCR) (only for scans)
  2. Compress PDF

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