Scanned & OCR PDF Files
A significant portion of enterprise documents are not natively digital—they are physical papers digitized via scanners. A raw scanned PDF contains exactly zero selectable text; it is merely a wrapper around a giant JPEG or TIFF image.
These sample files are designed specifically to trigger and validate your Optical Character Recognition (OCR) pipelines. They include raw scans, fully searchable PDFs (where invisible text is overlaid perfectly on top of the image), and hybrid documents containing a mix of both.
Scanned
A raw, flat image of text wrapped in a PDF container. Text extraction tools will return 0 words, proving the need for an OCR pipeline.
OCR
A fully processed searchable PDF containing a visible image layer perfectly synchronized with an invisible, selectable text layer.
Hybrid Scan OCR
A complex document mixing native digital fonts and raw scanned images on the exact same page to test routing logic.
Frequently Asked Questions
Use Cases
- Testing AWS Textract, Google Cloud Vision, or local Tesseract OCR integration.
- Validating text-selection logic in web viewers (ensuring users can drag and copy invisible text overlays).
- Ensuring search indexers know how to fall back to an OCR pipeline when standard text extraction yields 0 words.