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How to use Clean scanned PDF

Improve selected scanned PDF pages with grayscale, contrast and black-and-white controls. Compare the preview and download the processed document.

  1. Open a scanned document and select the pages to improve.
  2. Adjust grayscale, contrast or black-and-white settings and review the preview.
  3. Create and download the processed PDF.
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A practical example

For a faded scan, compare grayscale, contrast and black-and-white output on one page. Inspect Arabic dots, faint handwriting and stamps before applying settings to more pages. A strong threshold can improve a background while destroying information that OCR needs.

Does cleanup preserve selectable text?

Cleanup works on rendered page images. Use the searchable-document workflow when a new OCR text layer is needed afterward.

Read the complete workflow: Turn a scanned Arabic PDF into a searchable document