Thread: Tool to OCR an "image" PDF → add text as extra layer?
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Old 11-10-2020, 04:42 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by Shohreh View Post
Is there a tool that can…
1. OCR an "image" PDF, and
2. Include the text output as an additional layer in a PDF, so that the user can search, and possibly select+copy, and paste it elsewhere, like it were a "text" PDF?
Besides Adobe Acrobat, pretty much any commercial OCR tool, e.g. ABBYY FineReader, can do this.
There are also a couple of free Linux tools that can do this, e.g. pdfsandwich, but most of them are neither easy to install nor exactly user-friendly.
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