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Old 06-03-2020, 06:09 PM   #165
John F
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Originally Posted by ottischwenk View Post
A scan always results in an image and an image never contains any text that can be further processed.
You can only try to extract this with OCR.
I guess it depends on the definition of scan. When I scan a document on my multifunction printer to create a PDF, I can do a search for text on the PDF, and I can export the text of the PDF.
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