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We do position based text extraction. We add however an 'unpaper' function which tries to correct misalignments and increases the quality of the scan.

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What OCR library do you use? What languages it supports?

For scanned images we use https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract. For text based PDFs we pull the text directly from the file and all languages are supported.

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