Is there a way to download a searchable PDF file from Textract?

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Hi I have been looking at other OCR programs because Adobe Acrobat Pro has not been OCRing images in our documents correctly. When I upload Textract, the text in the images is correctly identified and downloaded in the .rtf file. I am uploading a PDF file to be scanned, can I then download a PDF file that is searchable with this found text?
Any suggestions on how to take the information I have and use it to make my PDFs searchable? The OCR engine not working has been escalated at Adobe, but I do need a way to send searchable PDF files (including images) for ADA compliance. Thank you!

apradana · Answer

There are some blogs to get you started. You're gonna need more than 1 service to build the search functionality since Textract focuses on OCR.
1. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/generating-searchable-pdfs-from-scanned-documents-automatically-with-amazon-textract/
2. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/creating-a-searchable-enterprise-document-repository/

shannongmac · Answer

Thank you, this feels above my current tech abilities, but I am going to read into all this!

Is there a way to download a searchable PDF file from Textract?

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