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macOS Spotlight fails to find text in scanned PDFs because they are image-based and lack a searchable text layer. This guide explains the technical cause of the issue and outlines how to apply Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to make these documents fully searchable.
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Does this use Tesseract or the native Vision framework for the OCR layer?
what ocr engine tho, that's where these guides always handwave
ocrmypdf via homebrew solves this in two commands. hard to see the market fit here.
explaining a known spotlight bug isnt exactly a product
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