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Why does PDF text extraction produce no text from a scanned document?
KitForma editorial guide. A page can look like text while containing only a picture of the page. Existing text extraction and OCR are different operations.
Step-by-step guidance
https://kitforma.com/en/pdf-extract-text/ reads an existing selectable text layer. It does not perform OCR, so a scan or photograph without that layer cannot yield text through this tool. Try selecting a sentence in your PDF viewer: if only an entire page image can be selected, you may need an OCR workflow.
If the source application is available, export a PDF with real text from there instead of printing a screenshot. When extracting a document that already has text, inspect the reading order: columns and complex layouts may not follow the visual order.
Use a non-sensitive sample when asking for help. Do not publish an ID document or private scan in a community question.
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