Does OCR make sense for digitally generated PDFs?
Digital born documents make use of transparency and spot colors. It isn’t uncommon to use geometric lines & curves to represent text, while the machine-readable information is missing.
Scanned PDF files usually consist of one raster image for each page. The OCR engine can recognize the text in this image and make the document searchable. But what about digitally generated documents?
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