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Searchable— help & troubleshooting
OCR a scanned PDF.
Open Searchable →- How to make a scanned PDF searchable with OCR in your browserRun OCR on a scanned PDF entirely in your browser to add an invisible text layer, so the pages stay pixel-identical but become selectable and searchable in any PDF reader.
- Searchable (OCR) troubleshooting: encrypted PDFs, no text found, slow runs, and the page capFixes for the most common OCR problems in Make searchable: password-protected or corrupt files, runs that find no text or garble it, very slow or interrupted runs, and PDFs over the 200-page cap.