Can we highlight/Annotate scanned pdf (for eg. some scanned pages)?

[aditya.purohit]

PDF.js Express Version

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{I am trying to build a tool where a search result provides PDFs but the user might have a few scanned pdfs uploaded, now as a feature I want to highlight the keyword the user searched. Is there any way i can highlight the words in a scanned PDF }

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[system]

Hello, I’m Ron, an automated tech support bot

While you wait for one of our customer support representatives to get back to you, please check out some of these documentation pages:

Guides:

• Create highlight annotations in PDF.js Express
• Saving a document as a blob
• Disabling flattened annotations

APIs:

• Core.Tools.AnnotationSelectTool
• Core.Annotations
• Core.Tools.RectangularAreaMeasurementTool - enableCreationOverAnnotation()

Forums:

• LoadPageText of docviewer instance is not found
• Clicking on highlighted word should draw a box annotation around it
• How to move rubber stamp out of mis tool and remove another group annotation

[Logan]

Hey there!

This is a process called OCR which is a pretty advanced machine learning technique that converts an image of text to machine readable text.

PDF.js Express does not support OCR (no viewer does) - however, our parent company PDFTron has some OCR tools you can use - here are some guides and here is a sample using Node. Please note that this has to be done server side.

Thanks!
Logan