Make any scan searchable – locally, no Python, no Ghostscript, no upload

I had a folder full of scanned PDFs – old contracts, receipts, a couple of books – and none of them were searchable. No Ctrl-F, no copy-paste, just pictures of text. I wanted to fix that. I did not want to upload any of it to a website, and I really did not want to spend an evening installing a tool…

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• Category: ai
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