Compare the Top OCR Software for Windows as of August 2024

What is OCR Software for Windows?

OCR software, short for Optical Character Recognition, enables the capture, scanning and processing of forms and documents in order to extract actionable data that needs to be processed. Compare and read user reviews of the best OCR software for Windows currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    PSPDFKit SDK

    PSPDFKit SDK

    PSPDFKit

    PSPDFKit is the comprehensive solution for all your PDF needs, offering tools that effortlessly integrate and operate PDF functionality across any platform. 1. SDK PRODUCTS Integrate robust PDF functionality into iOS, Android, Windows, web (JavaScript), or any cross-platform technology, providing capabilities such as PDF viewing, markup, collaboration, and more. 2. LIBRARIES Utilize our potent .NET and Java libraries to boost your backend applications with batch processing of redactions and PDF forms, OCR’d scanned text, and editing of PDF documents, directly from your application server. 3. PROCESSOR Our dynamic PDF microservice, Processor, enables swift generation of PDFs from HTML, including HTML forms, along with Office-to-PDF conversions, OCR, redaction, and XFDF merging and exporting. 4. PDF API Use hosted PDF API to generate, convert, and modify PDF documents in your workflows. We manage the development and server administration, letting you focus on what you do best
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    DocuPhase

    DocuPhase

    DocuPhase

    Attain 99.99% accuracy with our AI-driven and human-assisted OCR technology that reads header, line-item, and handwritten notes. That means less time spent manually keying in data.
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    Apryse PDF SDK
    Apryse, previously known as PDFTron, takes document solutions to the next level, making work better and life simpler. Bring PDF viewing, annotating, editing, creation, and generation to any web, mobile, desktop or server framework or application. As a global leader in document processing technology, Apryse gives developers, enterprise customers and small businesses the tools they need to reach their document goals faster and easier. Our product portfolio includes Apryse SDK, Fluent, iText and XODO. Apryse technology works with all major platforms and a wide variety of unique file types.
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    Adobe PDF Library SDK

    Adobe PDF Library SDK

    Datalogics Inc.

    Shorten development times & get to market faster with Adobe PDF Library. Global OEMs, SaaS and enterprise end-users rely on Adobe PDF Library to automate the creation, editing and management of PDFs. An Adobe partner, our SDK uses the same source code as Acrobat for stability, reliability and quality results. Adobe PDF Library gives developers flexible programming language and platform options, and is currently available in .NET, .NET Framework, Java and C/C++ on Windows, Linux, MacOS, as well as via NuGet and Maven. Our extensive documentation includes getting started guides, API references, and hundreds of sample code examples on GitHub to help developers precisely create and define PDF workflow solutions. Pricing for Adobe PDF Library is based on your business model & software usage. Free trial includes access to our PDF technology experts who can help with proof of concept as well as extend your free trial license if needed. Download and get started today!
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    Square 9

    Square 9

    Square 9

    Paper-based work is a soul-crushing, profit-sapping drag on individual, team, and company productivity. Paper literally smothers innovation, creating a competitive disadvantage. The Square 9 AI-powered intelligent information processing platform takes the paper out of work and makes it easier to get things done with digital workflows that automate many aspects of how you work today. We make it easy by extracting information from scans or PDFs, storing documents in a searchable archive, and building digital twins of your current processes through graphical workflows. Let’s end the challenge of lost or misplaced invoices, approval bottlenecks, and tedious data entry into multiple systems. Now, you can capture and extract key data from your documents through Artificial Intelligence, eliminate data entry, access documents in the office or from home, streamline your three-way matching process, and automate invoice approval routing.
    Starting Price: $50/month/user
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    ThinkAutomation

    ThinkAutomation

    Parker Software

    Develop the automations that work for you. With ThinkAutomation, you get an open-ended studio to build any and every automated workflow you could ever need. All without volume limitations, and all without paying per process, license or ‘robot’.
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    Starting Price: $2,700/year
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    MyQ

    MyQ

    MyQ

    MyQ X is the print management software that respects people – and knows their need for faster and more efficient print and scanned document workflows – regardless of device manufacturer, fleet size, or network type. From a management perspective, MyQ X enables closer oversight of costs and increased data security with its print and scanning settings. The MyQ X embedded terminal allows customization and secure work flows. For IT support staff, benefits start with automatic device detection and remote installation and continue with an admin web terminal with certified accessibility (WCAG) to give admins a single viewpoint of the fleet. End users gain from MyQ X in the office and on the go. The MyQ X Mobile Print Client (iOS and Android) enables users to add or remove documents from the print queues. In the office, MyQ X enables self-registration and QR code login. MyQ X includes the freemium SMART, ENTERPRISE for SMEs and large firms, and ULTIMATE with advanced workflows.
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    Starting Price: $0 for MyQ X Smart
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    hyper Digital Asset Management Server

    hyper Digital Asset Management Server

    hyperCMS Content Management Solutions

    The hyper Content & Digital Asset Management Server helps organizations to have full control over all their digital assets, to automate processes and cut costs. Access all your rich rich content directly by conveniently integrating it into the creative workflow of internal/external teams and programs like Adobe CS, MS Office, and OpenOffice. Ensure process control with collaborative approval. Share the content directly on Social Media Networks. Create customized Brand Portals to promote and meassure the success of various rich content.
    Starting Price: $21.00/mo (SaaS) $0 On-Premise
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    Optix

    Optix

    Mindwrap

    Optix flexible offerings include document management, workflow automation (business process management) and records management for multi-user organizations. With Optix, organizations are able to capture, store, route and secure content in virtually any format, while managing multiple revisions. With a footprint that spans the Fortune 500, federal, state, and local governments, and SMBs, Optix offers on-premises and hosted solutions that integrate with other business applications. Optix is the only complete document management system available for both Macintosh and Windows. Our drag-and-drop tools allow you to create beautiful, metadata-driven document management applications in minutes. With Optix, organizations have the power to magnify the value of one of their most critical assets, information. Optix lets organizations harness information in new ways to realize new efficiencies, reduce costs, streamline operations, meet regulatory demands, close new business, and exceed custo
    Starting Price: $360
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    Foxit PDF Editor

    Foxit PDF Editor

    Foxit Software

    Edit your PDFs with powerful yet easy workflows across desktop, mobile, and web - whether you’re at the office, home or on the go. Foxit PDF Editor provides a cost-effective solution for business professionals to work securely with PDF documents and forms. It provides a full featured platform to view, create, edit, collaborate, share, secure, organize, export, OCR, and eSign PDF documents. With its enterprise functionality, integration, and mass deployment capabilities, combined with its affordability, it makes a great alternative to evaluate when yearly subscriptions of existing PDF solutions expire. Foxit PDF Editor comes in two editions-PDF Editor and PDF Editor Pro. Foxit PDF Editor is perfect for individuals and groups of knowledge workers who need to create, review, edit, manage, share, and secure PDF documents. PDF Editor Pro builds upon PDF Editor by providing knowledge workers with additional editing, collaboration, and security capabilities required in larger organizations.
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    Starting Price: $14.99 US per month
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    FileCenter

    FileCenter

    FileCenter

    FileCenter is your fastest path to organized documents. It's easy to install, learn, and use. FileCenter DMS combines easy scanning and file organization with powerful PDF creation and editing. It also integrates with most Cloud services and the Windows programs you already use. FileCenter AUTOMATE converts documents into searchable PDFs with its powerful OCR and then automatically names and routes them. FileCenter RECEIPTS is the best way to manage your receipts, track your expenses, and create reports to ensure accurate reimbursements. FileCenter is perfect for offices of all sizes. It runs on your Windows PC and uses the Windows file system, NOT complex databases. Feature-for-feature, FileCenter delivers at a price the competition can't touch. Start your free trial today! Call 801-722-7098.
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    Starting Price: $99.95 (one-time/user)
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    Acrobat Reader DC
    View, sign, collaborate on, and annotate PDFs with our free Adobe Acrobat Reader. And to create, protect, convert, and edit PDFs, try out Acrobat Pro. Only with Adobe Acrobat Reader you can view, sign, collect and track feedback, and share PDFs for free. And when you want to do more, subscribe to Acrobat Pro DC. Then you can edit, export, and send PDFs for signatures. Do more than just open and view PDF files. It’s easy annotate documents and share them to collect and consolidate comments from multiple reviewers in a single shared online PDF. Work on documents anywhere using the Acrobat Reader mobile app. It’s packed with all the tools you need to convert, edit, and sign PDFs. You can use your device camera to capture a document, whiteboard, or receipt and save it as a PDF. Acrobat Reader DC is connected to Adobe Document Cloud, so you can work with your PDFs anywhere. You can even access and store files in Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, or Microsoft OneDrive.
    Starting Price: $1.95 per month
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    Microsoft Lens

    Microsoft Lens

    Microsoft

    Microsoft Lens (formerly Microsoft Office Lens) trims, enhances, and makes pictures of whiteboards and docs readable. You can use Microsoft Lens to convert images to PDF, Word and PowerPoint files, and you can even save images to OneNote or OneDrive. Microsoft Lens is like having a scanner in your pocket. Like magic, it will digitize notes from whiteboards or blackboards. Always find important documents or business cards. Sketch your ideas and snap a picture for later. Don't lose receipts or stray sticky notes again!
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    ABBYY FineReader PDF
    FineReader is an all-in-one OCR and PDF software application designed to increase business productivity. It provides easy-to-use tools to access and modify information locked in paper-based documents and PDFs. ABBYY FineReader PDF 16 for Windows Digitize, retrieve, edit, protect, share, and collaborate on all kinds of documents in the same workflow. Edit digital and scanned PDFs with a newfound ease: correct whole sentences and paragraphs or even adjust the layout. Incorporate paper documents into a digital workplace with AI-based OCR technology to simplify daily work. ABBYY FineReader PDF for Mac® Manage your documents more easily and perform all document tasks quicker in digital workflows. Convert PDFs, document images, and scans with unmatched accuracy Achieve new levels of productivity when converting documents with the latest OCR technology and view and reuse content from PDFs of any kind with ease.
    Starting Price: $16 monthly
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    PDFelement

    PDFelement

    Wondershare

    PDFelement is a one-stop PDF solution powered by AI. Fast, smart, affordable, and easy way to manage (.pdf) documents across desktop, mobile, and web. It provides a great user experience and is an excellent alternative to Adobe® Acrobat®, making it perfect for individuals and small businesses. The mission is to stay at the forefront of PDF technology, constantly innovating and improving our product to meet the evolving needs of our users. Support service: Knowledgeable representatives available through instant live chat and email response within 24 hours. Money-back guarantee: A 30-day money-back guarantee. Top Features: AI tools, esign, edit, convert, scan&OCR, create, organize, share&protect, build&fill forms, annotate.
    Starting Price: $79.99USD/year/user
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    Affinda Invoice Extractor
    Affinda provides AI-powered document automation solutions that combine the adaptability of human understanding with the precision of computer accuracy to streamline document processing tasks. Affinda’s Invoice Extractor lets you easily extract data from even the most complex invoices. Quickly and successfully process batch of invoices in PDFs, DOC, PNG, and JPG. Affinda Invoice Extractor recognises 50+ fields including line-item detail to allow accounts payable departments to streamline their processes. Companies switch to Affinda because of our ability to extract data from even the most difficult invoices, thereby freeing up staff to focus on higher-value activities. The Affinda Invoice Extractor is powered by our AI Engine, VEGA. It uses innovations in NLP (Natural Language Processing), Transfer Learning and Computer Vision so it can understand documents like a human. VEGA constantly self-learns and continues to improve over time.
    Starting Price: $300
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    elDoc

    elDoc

    DMS Solutions

    elDoc - Intelligent Integrated Platform, enterprise level solution for intelligent document processing and end-to-end document workflow automation delivering true automation values. elDoc - is an out-of-the box solution designed to intelligently understand and process data of different type. elDoc enables business to intelligently digitize data (by reading, locating, capturing, recognizing and converting unstructured data to structured format, processing the data from end-to-end perspective). elDoc is not just Intelligent OCR, it is fully Integrated Intelligent Automated Platform for end-to-end Document Workflow Automation and Document Understanding powered with cognitive technologies and robust Security Framework. elDoc will not limit your business by Total Page Count / number of documents to be processed through the system. elDoc provides unlimited document volume processing capabilities for your business to quickly scale up and achieve the greatest automation benefits.
    Starting Price: $80 per user per year
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    Tungsten OmniPage

    Tungsten OmniPage

    Tungsten Automation

    Tungsten OmniPage software converts any document into the word processor format of your choice. Save, edit and search documents as you would a Word document. Whether you’re converting a handful of paper documents or millions of pages, OmniPage solutions are perfect for a single user, small business or enterprise. Offers superior conversion accuracy, intelligent character recognition and zonal recognition, so you can quickly create editable documents. Fast document conversion times increase productivity and enable a greater focus on more strategic work. OmniPage Standard: For occasional document conversion needs or dedicated scanning to PCs. OmniPage Ultimate: Ideal OCR solution for SMBs and larger companies looking to maximize productivity.
    Starting Price: $149 one-time payment
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    DocsCorp

    DocsCorp

    DocsCorp

    Document management professionals turn to DocsCorp when they are looking for easy-to-use software that empowers them to work safer and smarter. We are a global brand with more than 500,000 users in over 65 countries. Our product portfolio is a list of must-have technologies that include document creation, email recipient checking, metadata cleaning, document comparison, PDF creation, and image file conversion to PDF, which can be accessed on the desktop, server or cloud. Our products integrate out-of-the-box with leading enterprise content management systems to streamline processes and to drive business efficiency. We offer organizations a combination of on-premises and cloud integrations. We work with industries that are document-centric to help them manage their most critical asset - documents. This includes Government Departments, Legal Services, Financial Services, and Technology companies.
    Starting Price: $49.50/user
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    ChronoScan

    ChronoScan

    Digital File

    Virtually improve every data capture need you have with the multitude of features that comprise ChronoScan. Built on a server-client infrastructure ChronoScan Enterprise can be used to process a very wide range of different documents and partially or fully automate your workflow. The windows service architecture gives the flexibility and the power to the system administrator. The thin client interface can be accessed from any web browser and from anywhere, anytime. It gives the user all the power of ChronoScan without the need for extra software installation. Select the desired notifications and email lists for each Job and keep everyone notified. ChronoScan Enterprise includes a scanner plugin that will allow any client machine to scan directly into the program using a local scanner. Helps you with data Entry with OCR & Assisted auto fields. Extract text from PDF Files and convert to indexed data. Upload documents to the Cloud.
    Starting Price: €245 one-time payment
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    Ephesoft

    Ephesoft

    Ephesoft

    Ephesoft provides intelligent document processing solutions with industry-leading technology to help enterprises maximize their productivity. Using AI and patented machine learning technology, Ephesoft’s platform captures data from documents, enriches it with context and amplifies the power of that data, adding intelligence to accelerate any business process and drive successful digital transformation. Thousands of customers worldwide use Ephesoft to save costs, improve accuracy, and fuel their journey towards autonomous enterprise. Ephesoft is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., with regional offices throughout the US, EMEA and Asia Pacific. Ephesoft Transact is an enterprise capture and data extraction automation platform, in the cloud, hybrid or on-premises, that automates any content-based business process and makes meaning out of unstructured data for decision-makers worldwide.
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    Scanbot SDK

    Scanbot SDK

    Scanbot SDK

    Scanbot SDK offers a B2B product, the Scanbot Software Development Kit (SDK), enabling enterprises to easily integrate data capture capabilities such as barcode scanning, document detection & scanning, and data extraction functionalities into their mobile (iOS / Android) and web applications. The Scanbot SDK is a 100% offline solution that works exclusively on the device. It will never send data to any external server except yours. With additional features like encryption, Scanbot ensures that data is only shared between your users and your server, both at rest and in transit. The SDK is compatible with almost every app- and web-based development platform and can be easily integrated within a week. Industry-leading firms like AXA, Generali, Deutsche Telekom, and ArcBest already rely on Scanbot SDK. You can try them yourself in our demo app (available in the App and Play Store) or start testing it in your own app already – with a free trial license code available on our website.
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    Onymos

    Onymos

    Onymos

    Time to market can make or break any app dev project. Yet many enterprises, agencies, and developers slow innovation by burning countless hours building core functionality from scratch and extending development timelines. When you can get the Features your app needs out of the box, development begins with the foundation already in place, and you can move fast from day one. Cut development time by as much as 80%. You can deploy in days, not months when you build your app with ready-made, full-stack features from Onymos. The average Onymos feature has over a thousand hours of development time, and that number’s only getting bigger. When software or APIs get updated, our features do too. UI/UX, front-end logic, and integrated cloud services like Stripe, APNs, and Amazon S3. When you use Onymos Features, you get it all. Companies like Albertsons, CVS Pharmacy, and Walmart are already building their apps with Onymos.
    Starting Price: $0.60 per month
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    Indxr

    Indxr

    Encodian Solutions

    Perform limitless OCR of PDF files in SharePoint Online at a fixed, affordable price. While OCR can be resource-intensive, Indxr offers cost-effective solutions. Get started with our free plan, which includes an audit feature that scans your SharePoint Online environment, providing detailed reports on non-searchable content on a per-page basis. Gain valuable insights into the extent of non-searchable content across your organization. Customize OCR operations at the site, document library, or individual folder level with options such as image cleanup (deskew, despeckle, auto-rotate), source file overwriting, metadata and permissions copying, new file prefixes, and more. Save your OCR configurations and automate their execution using Windows Task Scheduler. Enjoy unlimited OCR capabilities, CPU cores, users, and instances.
    Starting Price: $2,999 per year
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    Adlib

    Adlib

    Adlib Software

    Adlib Software is a content intelligence and automation platform that makes it easy to discover, standardize, and leverage clean structured data from complex unstructured documents. We help businesses drive digital transformation that amplifies human potential and maximizes business performance. Through our enterprise-grade document conversion tools, our global customers reduce risk, simplify compliance, automate processes, improve customer experience, and accelerate time to market. Adlib is designed for businesses in banking, insurance, manufacturing, energy and life sciences. It lets organizations utilize artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) technologies to cleanse data from unstructured content and automate content acquiring, accessing and delivering processes, whilst maintaining compliance with GDPR, CCPA, IFRS 17 and LIBOR regulations.
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    Scandit

    Scandit

    Scandit

    Scandit is the leader in smart data capture giving superpowers to workers, customers and businesses by providing actionable insights and automating end-to-end processes. Our Smart Data Capture platform enables smart devices, such as smartphones, drones, digital eyewear and robots to interact with physical items by capturing data from barcodes, text, IDs and objects with unmatched speed, accuracy and intelligence. Scandit accurately scans up to 3x faster than dedicated scanners in challenging light or at angles, on damaged labels, across multiple codes on any smart device. We enable innovation that delivers significant cost savings, increases employee retention and customer loyalty. Scandit partners with customers at every step with trials, solution design, integration and customer success support included. Visit scandit.com to learn why many market leaders trust us.
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    Tungsten Capture

    Tungsten Capture

    Tungsten Automation

    Organizations that work like tomorrow employ cognitive capture to intelligently automate the acquisition, understanding and integration of all types of information across an organization, including unstructured data in business documents and emails. Through intelligent document processing, which combines multichannel document capture and intelligent OCR, users have the power to quickly and accurately process any document. Apply out-of-the-box AI to convert unstructured data from documents into structured data that can be used to drive process improvement and business intelligence. Empower your organization to automate workflows with content-aware capture and print technologies and by applying workflow orchestration. Add document security controls and ensure compliance by applying consistent content-based business rules and data protection policies.
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    Anyline

    Anyline

    Anyline

    We make data capture simple, giving you the power to read, interpret and process visual information on mobile devices, websites and embedded cameras. Thanks to our partnerships with some of the greatest minds in machine learning, we have created the market-leading character scanning solution. From our home base in Vienna, Austria and US headquarters in Boston, our growing and dynamic team is changing the way companies manage data. Scan Barcodes, Passports, ID Documents, Utility Meters, License Plates, Serial Numbers, Tire DOT numbers, Documents and much more - in seconds! Send messages to or pull messages from queues, create a message exchange to publish and subscribe (pub/sub), or send a message to multiple queues to decouple applications and enable scale.
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    Grooper
    Grooper was built from the ground up by BIS, a company with 35 years of continuous experience developing and delivering new technology. Grooper is an intelligent document processing and digital data integration solution that empowers organizations to extract meaningful information from paper/electronic documents and other forms of unstructured data. The platform combines patented and sophisticated image processing, capture technology, machine learning, natural language processing, and optical character recognition to enrich and embed human comprehension into data. By tackling tough challenges that other systems cannot resolve, Grooper has become the foundation for many industry-first solutions in healthcare, financial services, oil and gas, education, and government.
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    FreeOCR

    FreeOCR

    FreeOCR

    FreeOCR is a free Optical Character Recognition Software for Windows and supports scanning from most Twain scanners and can also open most scanned PDF's and multi-page Tiff images as well as popular image file formats. FreeOCR outputs plain text and can export directly to Microsoft Word format. Free OCR uses the latest Tesseract (v3.01) OCR engine. It includes a Windows installer and It is very simple to use and supports opening multi-page tiff documents, Adobe PDF, and fax documents as well as most image types including compressed Tiff's which the Tesseract engine on its own cannot read.It now can scan using Twain and WIA scanning drivers. FreeOCR V4 includes Tesseract V3 which increases accuracy and has page layout analysis so more accurate results can be achieved without using the zone selection tool. As well as OCR FreeOCR can scan and save images as JPG and we are currently working on a "Scan to PDF" capability with the option to save as searchable PDF.
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