PDF and text layers

Reading a PDF's own text layer is exact and nearly free. How Ovrin decides that a text layer is usable, and what it does when the layer is not.

Ovrin strongly prefers native text extraction when the PDF already contains a text layer. This is faster and more precise than OCR because it comes directly from the document content rather than from an image interpretation pass.

Why this matters

Text-layer extraction is high quality and cheap. It keeps the extraction pipeline accurate and reduces unnecessary OCR work.