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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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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. 

 

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djkdjkdjk
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago
FWIW, I finally gave up and switched to Google Drive. Their free version OCRs PDFs for text search almost instantly. Neither Dropbox nor OneDrive was able to for me, which is ironic since I actually *paid* for them.
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    rhut
    Collaborator | Level 8
    3 years ago

    Sorry about that -- yes, OCR is only supported for English today and we haven't yet expanded to other languages!

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