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OCR would replace the pixel information with text information, creating searchable text and shrinking your file size.


Not necessarily -- I've seen OCR solutions where the original bitmap is preserved alongside the recognised text. This makes it searchable, but also means that you can read the text from the original image if it didn't recognise something quite right.

I don't know whether the system we're talking about here does this, though.
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