How to search what you scanned
Answers to the questions people type before they find us: what OCR does, which free tools do it, how to search thousands of scans at once and what old print does to all of it. They are useful whether or not you ever use Searchive.
English
- How to make a scanned PDF searchable
Why Ctrl+F finds nothing in a scan, what OCR adds, the free tools and what changes at a thousand files.
- How to search inside thousands of PDFs at once
Spotlight, Windows Search, Acrobat and grep: what each can do and where they stop.
- How to OCR PDFs offline, without uploading anything
Every way to run recognition on your own machine and what to check in a tool's privacy policy.
- No model reads your archive
What OCR is, where documents go with the usual tools and two tests that show nothing leaves your machine.
- Turn phone photos of documents into one searchable PDF
From a camera roll of IMG_4471 to a document you can search, shot so the OCR can read it.
- Searching thousands of scanned archive pages for one name
What old print does to OCR, names in every spelling, reading the original and keeping what you find. Where Searchive began.
Nederlands
- nlEen gescande PDF doorzoekbaar maken
Waarom zoeken niets vindt in een scan, wat OCR toevoegt, de gratis programma's en wat er verandert bij duizend bestanden.
- nlEen papieren archief digitaliseren en doorzoekbaar maken
Voor kantoren en verenigingen: scannen zodat je het later terugvindt, zonder documentbeheersysteem en zonder cloud.
Deutsch
- deGescannte PDFs durchsuchbar machen
Warum die Suche in einem Scan nichts findet, was Texterkennung hinzufügt, die kostenlosen Programme und was sich bei tausend Dateien ändert.
- deFraktur und alte deutsche Schrift per OCR erkennen
Welche freien Werkzeuge Fraktur lesen, was Antiqua-Drucke brauchen und was Searchive heute kann und was nicht.
Français
- frComment rendre un PDF scanné cherchable
Pourquoi la recherche ne trouve rien dans un scan, ce que l'OCR ajoute, les outils gratuits et ce qui change avec mille fichiers.
- frOCR de documents anciens en français : ce qui marche
Imprimé ou manuscrit, s long, orthographe ancienne, accents : ce que la reconnaissance lit et comment chercher ensuite.
Italiano
- itRendere ricercabile un PDF scansionato
Perché la ricerca non trova nulla in una scansione, come funziona l'OCR e come cercare in un intero archivio.
Search every page of your scanned archives.
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