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What is OCR? Extracting Text from Scanned PDFs

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) turns flat images of text into searchable, selectable data.

By The Lazy PDF TeamAugust 4, 20261 min read

The "Image-Only" PDF problem

If your cursor draws a blue box over a whole page instead of highlighting text, your PDF is a flat scan.

Enter Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

OCR scans an image, identifies letters, and translates them back into text. Run your document through our OCR PDF tool to create an invisible layer of selectable text over the original image. This enables searchability, copy/pasting, and screen-reader accessibility.

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