using IronOcr;
var ocrTesseract = new IronTesseract();
using var ocrInput = new OcrInput();
ocrInput.LoadPdf("scan.pdf", Password: "password");
// Clean up twisted pages
ocrInput.Deskew();
var ocrResult = ocrTesseract.Read(ocrInput);
ocrResult.SaveAsSearchablePdf("searchable.pdf");
Imports IronOcr
Dim ocrTesseract = New IronTesseract()
Using ocrInput = New OcrInput()
ocrInput.LoadPdf("scan.pdf", Password:="password")
' Clean up twisted pages
ocrInput.Deskew()
Dim ocrResult = ocrTesseract.Read(ocrInput)
ocrResult.SaveAsSearchablePdf("searchable.pdf")
End Using
IronOCR allows you to embed the recognized text from scanned documents directly into PDFs, making them fully searchable and selectable - perfect for OCR workflows and archival indexing.
Configuration.RenderSearchablePdf = true if not using default behavior.input.LoadPdf() or input.LoadImage().Deskew() improve OCR quality.SaveAsSearchablePdf(...), or output to byte/stream variants for embedding or further processing.Nuget Downloads 6,279,416|Version:2026.10just released
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