A scan you cannot search is a filing cabinet without labels
Every business keeps scanned PDFs: signed contracts, invoices, certificates, old correspondence. The pixels are all there, but Ctrl+F finds nothing, document systems cannot index them, and "which of these forty scans mentions the deposit" means opening all forty. OCR fixes this once per document: the recognized text is embedded into the same PDF as an invisible layer, and from then on the file behaves like a born-digital document.
The recognition engine reads the page as a whole – columns, tables, headers – rather than line by line, which is what keeps reading order sensible in the extracted text. That same order is what search, copy-paste and AI tools consume.
Searchable beats retyped
The output is deliberately conservative: the scan itself is untouched, so nothing can be misdrawn, and the document remains a faithful copy of what was signed. When the goal is editing rather than archiving, convert the scan to Word with PDF to Word. And once a scan is searchable, the text tools work on it: compare two versions with Compare PDF, ask questions with Chat with PDF, or keep it findable long-term in the vault.