Continuing our series of educational posts about the various aspects of document scanning, here is some basic information about the way we make your documents text-searchable.
You might already know that every document you have scanned with OfficeDrop gets converted to a text-searchable PDF. The text-searchbility is what lets you search your documents by word or phrase in our system or others. If you’re wondering how we do that, then we have three words for you – Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
OCR for Text Search
OCR is a software that we integrate with every scan. Without it, your scan is just a recording of light as an image. It isn’t until OCR is employed that applications can start “reading” characters and interacting with features like search. You can see why we think OCR is so important considering search is one of the best parts about digital filing. To learn more about OCR and OfficeDrop, see our OCR scanning page.
