Gemini Reads the Words, PaddleOCR Finds the Lines: A Searchable PDF From a Scanned Book
The Need: The Search Works, But the Highlight Is on the Wrong Line I scanned a printed training workbook, one photo per page, 184 pages plus a cover. I wanted one PDF where Ctrl+F finds a phrase. I also wanted the answers from my sermon-and-book library to cite the right page. My first version used one model for everything. The text was good. But when I searched, the yellow highlight sat a line or two away from the words. That is a small thing until you use the book as a source. If the highlight cannot be trusted, you stop trusting the page number too. ...