Checking if Searchable or Image Only PDF

[Robert Williams]

Hi

Within code - is it possible to check if a PDF is already "searchable"? 

We get documents from a third party and want to search for keywords - don't want to be running an OCR over files that are already searchable.

Thanks

Rob

legalinx.co.uk

[Tom Morris]

On Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 7:34:58 AM UTC-4, Robert Williams wrote:

Within code - is it possible to check if a PDF is already "searchable"? 

We get documents from a third party and want to search for keywords - don't want to be running an OCR over files that are already searchable.

Sure, but it doesn't have anything to do with OCR. If you can't figure it out from the documentation for whatever PDF toolkit you're using, you should ask in their support forum.

Tom 

[Gunasekaran Velu]

Hi Rob

using iTextsharp you can check the pdf is already searchable pdf or not.

Regards

Guna