Searchable PDF use case

Search inside scanned invoices

Finance teams often receive image-only scans—OCR adds copyable text for search and downstream extraction.

How it works

Recommended workflow

  1. Upload the scanned invoice PDF.
  2. Add optional language hints if the scan is not English.
  3. Run OCR and download the searchable PDF.

FAQ

Questions about this workflow

Does OCR read card numbers into analytics?

No. Document text is not sent to analytics.

Will born-digital PDFs be skipped?

The backend skips OCR when a text layer already exists when possible.