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Do they OCR before converting to PDF? Having a PDF that is just a 'picture' isn't very helpful (can't search for text, change text size, etc).


yes, the pricing page on their site says OCR is included free.


That depends though. Isn't there a way for the PDF page to be an image, but for OCR to produce an index of keywords, so that you are viewing the image, but the index is searchable? This doesn't solve the increase/decrease text size issue (though it does solve the searching issue).


Yes, searchable PDF puts the OCRed text behind the image so that it's not visible but is still searchable.




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