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'Native OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Support in Box's Search Index for PDFs' has been merged into this idea

Box search function will not search pdf documents I have personally OCR'd using Adobe.

Box search function will not search pdf documents I have personally OCR'd using Adobe. Please advise.

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  • Nathan McBride commented  ·   ·  Report

    How are you OCR'ing the PDFS? For years we have had no issues searching on OCR'd PDFS. Whether we create them through our scanners or through Acrobat, they are always searchable. The only caveat is that not every OCR scan is clean. If the text is skewed or misproportioned, the OCR'd PDF library layer can be missing words or have incorrect text.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    I would like to expand on this beyond just PDF and include TIFF files as well

  • Walt Bower commented  ·   ·  Report

    Box should be able to have OCR capabilities either natively or through an integration to be able to make all PDF documents full text searchable.

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