Scans & archiving
OCR scanned PDFs offline and make them searchable
OCR adds an invisible text layer to scanned pages, so search and copy work, while the page looks exactly as before. Recognition runs locally; nothing is uploaded.
- Scanned pages become searchable and selectable
- Runs offline on your computer
- The picture of the page stays unchanged
- Two small model files (about 12 MB) are downloaded once, checked against a fixed checksum and stored in your user folder
- The Windows installer can fetch them for you
Searching for text in a scanned page after OCR
The dialog offering to download the OCR models