How to use iText pdfOCR to recognize text in scanned documents

André V. Lemos

30 Jun 2020CPOL8 min read

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A tutorial for generating searchable, archivable PDFs for your workflow with iText pdfOCR

iText pdfOCR is a new open-source add-on for iText 7, the open-source PDF library for Java and .NET. It allows you to recognize text in scanned documents, PDFs and images, enabling access to text locked away in documents for processing and re-purposing, or to produce PDF/A-3u documents for long-term archiving purposes.

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