iText Group NV, a globally recognized innovator of PDF libraries and solutions, today announced the launch of iText pdfOCR , the latest addition to the award-winning software offering. iText pdfOCR, which is integrated in the iText 7 PDF SDK, offers OCR (Optical Character Recognition) functions that convert printed text in scanned documents and images into a fully searchable PDF / A-3 compatible format (PDF version 1.7) can. This enables a much easier and faster access to these texts. Without machine-readable text, printed or scanned documents cannot be searched, indexed or interpreted. Logical follow-up steps would be, for example, data extraction with iText pdf2Data, the secure editing of content with iText…