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Convert PDF to Searchable PDF

Overview

To make a searchable PDF by adding invisible text to an image based PDF such as a scanned document using OCR.

Sample

Full code sample which shows how to use the ComPDFKit OCR module on scanned documents in multiple languages.

java
SearchablePdfOptions opt = new SearchablePdfOptions();
CPDFConversion.startPDFToSearchablePdf("scan.pdf", "password", "path/output.pdf", opt);