While the Preview app on macOS can handle basic editing of PDFs and other documents, it doesn’t have OCR software built-in.
If you have a PDF that isn’t searchable it was likely sourced from an image, like a scan. Read on for some options to apply OCR to PDFs on Mac.
Do you have a PDF document, but the text isn’t searchable? You can change that with optical character recognition (OCR) software.
