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Read text for PDF & text-based assets

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In Canto, you are able to store PDF and other text-based documents. Canto reads the text of .doc, .docx, and .pdf files when they are uploaded, so you can search for these assets using any word that appears in them.

Text inside .xls, .xlsx, and .html files is not read, so searches will not return these files based on their content.

Canto reads up to 1 million characters, including spaces, per document.

This feature is enabled by default and does not need to be set up.

Please note:

Scanned PDFs need text recognition to be enabled before their text can be read. For details, please see the article "Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for scanned PDFs".

 

 

 

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