Question: What is OCR? Could you tell me what OCR means? I see the option for OCR mentioned both when I scan documents into PDF using my scanner, and when I use your PdfCompressor.

Answer: OCR is an abbreviation for Optical Character Recognition. OCR software is designed to translate images of typewritten text, faxed, and scanned files into machine editable, text-searchable, index-able text. Our OCR engine is capable of four different modes of OCR; the different modes are based on the quality of the scanned document.

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