The issue with OCR’ing pdfs is typically that it doesn’t understand the document formatting. So if you’re reading a document which is formatted as two columns per page, the OCR text will be a mess.
I have this trouble a lot when trying to digitise or refresh some of the older documentation our company uses. It often becomes easier to just recreate it, by the time you’ve fucked about trying to restore the formatting.
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The issue with OCR’ing pdfs is typically that it doesn’t understand the document formatting. So if you’re reading a document which is formatted as two columns per page, the OCR text will be a mess.
I have this trouble a lot when trying to digitise or refresh some of the older documentation our company uses. It often becomes easier to just recreate it, by the time you’ve fucked about trying to restore the formatting.
I’m willing to bet that given that most scientific papers are in that two format column, this ocr will take that into account or it’s dead on arrival.