Text Recognition / OCR

Text Recognition is disabled by default. You first need to enable it in the Settings.

Text Recognition allows you to:

• Index and search the content of your documents.

• Create searchable PDFs – when OCR is enabled, your exported PDFs will include a text layer which means that you will be able to copy their text.

• Extract metadata from your scans, particularly business cards and receipts:

  • Create contacts from business cards (or name the document based on the contact name).

  • Generate Expense reports.

  • Extract and locate places and addresses.

  • Call phone numbers detected in the scan.

  • Rename a document based on the content detected in the scan.

• Share the text content of a document by exporting it as a text file.

Text Recognition (that you might also know as OCR, short for Optical Character Recognition) is available as part of Genius Scan Plus and Genius Scan Ultra. To know more about the benefits of Text Recognition, please see this article.