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For some reason, it’s 2025 and PDFs are still the most complicated file type to work with. Whether it’s trying to edit text, reduce file size, deal with compatibility issues, or just trying to ...

Abstract: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a crucial technology for the digital processing and preservation of textual information. While significant progress has been made in OCR for commonly ...

PDF Candy is an impressive free PDF editor that includes many capabilities you’d only expect in a paid tool. Editor’s note: This review was updated April 3, 2025 to reflect the most current features ...

For years, businesses, governments, and researchers have struggled with a persistent problem: How to extract usable data from Portable Document Format (PDF) files. These digital documents serve as ...

On Thursday French large language model (LLM) developer Mistral launched a new API for developers who handle complex PDF documents. Mistral OCR is an optical character recognition (OCR) API that can ...

President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is no stranger to Washington: She’s worked in the department twice before, under George W. Bush and ...

If you want to convert images containing text into editable files and documents, you need to use something called OCR (Optical Character Recognition), a feature that’s becoming increasingly available ...