The invisible layer, spotted
A scan that already went through character recognition carries invisible text under its image. The checker sees it, so you never recognize the same pages twice.
How it works
Three steps, nothing more.
Step 01
Drop the PDF you want to check.
Step 02
Read the page-by-page diagnosis: text, scan, or scan already recognized.
Step 03
Make the scanned pages searchable, or download the report.
What sets it apart
Built for the result.
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Page by page, not yes or no
A contract signed then rescanned, a photographed appendix: the diagnosis tells you which pages a search misses, so you only fix those.
Accepted formats
Drop them as they are, no conversion needed first.
Privacy
Where your files are processed
With this tool, your file is not transmitted anywhere: not to us, not to any third party. We know neither its name, nor its contents, nor its size.
Nothing is kept, because nothing reaches us.
Frequently asked
What people ask us.
Another question? The contact address is at the bottom of the page.
A PDF whose text is stored as text: you can search for a word, select it, copy it, and a screen reader can read it aloud. A scan is just a picture of a page: it looks the same, but a search finds nothing in it.
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