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djkdjkdjk
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

PDF OCR with text search

Dropbox Plus. Uploading a scanned PDF, it never gets OCRed to be full text searchable. Chatted with support for ages until they finally decided “oh, that feature requires Pro or above, not Plus becau...
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djkdjkdjk
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago
Ticket# 22372920
I don’t believe the PDFs had any text metadata, but you’ll find I provided a sample PDF attached to the ticket.
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Hannah
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3 years ago

Thanks for the ticket number, djkdjkdjk!

 

If you try OCR with a different PDF file, that does have text in it, but is not scanned, does it work?

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    djkdjkdjk
    Explorer | Level 4
    3 years ago
    Sorry, didn’t get email notification of your reply. I’m not sure I understand. What PDF would not be scanned and also would not have text metadata? Can you give an example? Apologies if I’m being dense. 🙂 Thanks
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      Hannah
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      3 years ago

      No worries!

       

      Just any PDF file that's not scanned, for example a file that you might have downloaded to your computer through the internet.

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        dustinek
        New member | Level 2
        3 years ago

        I have plenty of PDFs that I've scanned from letters, etc, I'd like them to be OCR converted retrospectively. Do I need a Dropbox Pro subscription (I have Plus)? They've not been converted up to now.

         

        Also they're in Polish if that's an issue but why should it be. 

         

        D.

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