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Can My PDF's Text Be Selected
Check whether a PDF's text can be selected and searched.
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How it works
Reports which pages carry a text layer and how many characters were found. This is the single most useful thing to know about a PDF before working on it: it decides whether the document can be searched, read aloud, extracted from, or usefully compressed.
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Questions
- Why does this matter so much?
- It decides what you can do with the file. Almost every other question follows from it.
- Some pages have text and some do not. Why?
- Documents assembled from several sources often mix generated pages with scanned ones.
- How do I add a text layer?
- Run OCR.