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There's nothing worse than opening a PDF and realizing you can't use the search function or even highlight text. This typically happens when a PDF was created by scanning a paper document—it's just a ...

Please find below instructions for converting PDF documents into searchable or OCR (Optimal Character Recognition) formatting. This will allow documents to be accessed by screen readers and ...

Widely used PDF files capture text and images nearly exactly as they display in the application that created them. The format is designed to store text and both bitmapped and vector images, with the ...