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KJ01
Explorer | Level 3
7 years ago

How to make words in PDF files searchable or how to extract the words

I can scan documents, whiteboards and turn them into nice B&W PDF's. How do I make those PDF's and the words in them searchable? How do I use the OCR feature to extract recognizable words from the ...
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    Jay
    7 years ago
    Actually, the OCR works like your wish. You don't need to physically be in a doc to search it.

    You can just conduct a normal search through the website or mobile app, and provided it was scanned by the mobile app, it will detect that text and bring up that document in the search results.

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