Search Scanned Documents
Contracts, receipts, faxes and screenshots often contain no searchable text – to a normal search, they're invisible. Lookeen's OCR recognizes the text and makes these documents as findable as any other file.
How it works
Text from images and PDFs
Lookeen recognizes text in scanned PDFs, TIFFs, images and screenshots and stores it in the search index – in file shares, mailboxes and PST archives.
Originals stay untouched
OCR never changes a file. The recognized text is kept separately in the index, and the original stays as it is.
Many languages
English and German are included; more languages can be added as needed.
Search as usual
Hits from recognized text appear in the same results – with filters, tags and preview.
Local or cloud – your choice
- Local text recognition: Lookeen Server can run OCR locally with Tesseract. Your documents never leave the network.
- Cloud provider optional: Alternatively, a cloud service can be connected with your own credentials – only if an administrator explicitly configures it.
- Recognize once, use often: An OCR cache prevents the same files from being processed again on every run.
- Switchable per source: OCR can be enabled separately for files, PST archives and Microsoft 365.
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