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OCR (Optical Character Recognition) converts images of text — like scanned documents or photos — into actual selectable, searchable, and editable text.
ModernPDF's OCR engine supports over 100 languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and Hindi.
Yes. The OCR works on any image containing text — scanned pages, photos of whiteboards, screenshots, or camera captures of printed documents.