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Tenome · 10-24-2022, 08:15 AM

I made a searchable OCR'd PDF in ABBYY with the "save text under image" setting (this is what OCR software usually defaults to, so that it displays the original scan in case the OCR made a mistake). Whenever I try to convert the PDF in Calibre, though, it ignores the included OCR'd text and just spits out the original images. How can I resolve this? I'm able to copy and paste the OCR'd text, so I know it's not a problem with the PDF. Calibre just isn't seeing the text for some reason.

10-24-2022, 08:15 AM	#1
Tenome Enthusiast Posts: 38 Karma: 26 Join Date: Jan 2022 Device: none	OCR'd PDF to EPUB/TXT/etc. not copying text over (text under image). I made a searchable OCR'd PDF in ABBYY with the "save text under image" setting (this is what OCR software usually defaults to, so that it displays the original scan in case the OCR made a mistake). Whenever I try to convert the PDF in Calibre, though, it ignores the included OCR'd text and just spits out the original images. How can I resolve this? I'm able to copy and paste the OCR'd text, so I know it's not a problem with the PDF. Calibre just isn't seeing the text for some reason. Last edited by Tenome; 10-24-2022 at 08:39 AM.