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Convert Scanned PDFs to Selectable By OCR
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Easily perform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) on PDFs. `pdf2searchablepdf input.pdf` = voila! "input_searchable.pdf" is created & now has searchable text
2022 · github.com
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2015 · searchablepdfs.org
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2020 · scanyourpdf.com
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Implement scanyourpdf.com in JavaScript. No backend servers needed.
2022 · lookscanned.io
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Hi, OP here. A friend was involved in a custody battle and was afraid his ex was going to leak all of his discovery documents on the internet and he asked if there was something I could do to make it harder for bots/crawlers to find sensitive information. Originally I was going to turn all of his docs to image based PDFs, but those get large fast and are easy to OCR. So I found a post musing about altering fonts/glyphs so that it looks like english, but the actual character being seen by the pdf reader is a non-english character. As such, when you try to OCR these files, it doesn't…
2022 · humaneyesonly.com
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2023 · github.com
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Jan 2026 · github.com
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I just realized you can now open a PDF document in Firefox and select text directly from scanned images embedded in the document (so basically transparently reliable doing OCR). It is also surprisingly reliable, only sometimes mistaking a "oh" for a "zero" in a long string of numbers. I neither know when this was introduced nor who added this feature, but from the bottom of my heart: thank you, thank you, thank you, you have made my daily life a lot easier. I also haven't really explored the limits of the feature and under what conditions it starts failing, but: in my daily workflow so far,…
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2021 · pdf.to
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Turn any PDF into an editable Excel sheet — one click
Jul 2026 · chromewebstore.google.com
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