Search scans with their content

How can I get a searchable PDF?

With the Text Recognition feature, the PDFs you create will have a text layer in addition to the image layer.

You first need to activate Text Recognition. Then, every new document that you scan (or any page that you edit) will be re-processed with OCR. Once a document has been processed with OCR, it will contain a text layer when you export it as a PDF.

Search scans with their content

By default, the search field in Genius Scan only searches in the title and tags of your documents.

However, with Text Recognition you can find documents based on any of their content. This will let you quickly find an old iPhone receipt by searching for "Apple Store" even if the text doesn't appear in the title of the document but only in the actual document.

1. Make sure Text Recognition is activated.

2. Make sure the document has been processed with Text Recognition. By default, OCR will only apply to new documents. You can go into the Genius Scan settings to process old documents.

3. Search your document based on its content.