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title: "Advanced Viewer OCR Search"
url: "https://help.ontraccr.com/en/article/advanced-viewer-ocr-search"
language: "en"
last_updated: "2025-07-25T17:49:59.817Z"
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# Advanced Viewer OCR Search

## **🔎 Advanced Viewer OCR Search**  
 

The **Advanced File Viewer** in Ontraccr includes powerful **OCR (Optical Character Recognition) search** capabilities — allowing you to search inside scanned PDFs and drawings, not just text-based files.

This makes it much easier to find specific items in large, complex documents without scrolling manually.

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## **🧠 What is OCR?**

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) scans the visible content of a file and makes **text in images or scanned documents searchable**.

✔ You can search even if the file wasn’t originally digital or didn’t have selectable text.

📌 Example: A scanned blueprint or product spec sheet can still be searched for terms like “Item #243” or “12-gauge”.

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## **🔍 How to Use OCR Search**

1.  Open a file in the **Advanced File Viewer**
2.  Locate the **Search bar** (usually on the left panel or toolbar)
3.  Type in the word or phrase you want to find

### **Search Options:**

-   **Case Sensitive**: Only matches text that matches the capitalization you typed
-   **Whole Word**: Only matches full words (e.g. “Item” but not “Items”)

**Once you type in your term, the system will:**

-   List every **page** where the word appears
-   **Highlight** the matches directly in the document
-   Allow you to **click** any match to jump straight to that page

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## **🏗 Use Cases**

OCR search is ideal for:

-   **Construction drawings**: Find a specific room, part, or material callout
-   **Spec sheets**: Jump to a model number or spec name
-   **Large contracts or product manuals**: Quickly locate a clause or component

💡 Instead of scrolling through 100+ pages, let Ontraccr find the content for you.

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## **🔄 Works With All Common File Types**

OCR search is available for:

-   Scanned PDFs
-   Drawings and plans
-   Image-based documents with printed or typed text

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## 🧾 **Summary**

-   OCR lets you search inside non-editable or scanned documents
-   Available only in the **Advanced File Viewer**
-   Results show exact page numbers and let you jump directly to the match
-   Great for drawings, specs, and large technical documents