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Symphony OCR is part of Symphony Suite, The Complete Imaging Solution. Symphony OCR is a back-end OCR engine. It will locate all image-only PDF and TIF files in your document management system and convert them to fully text searchable PDFs by adding an invisible layer of text over the image. Symphony OCR typically runs on a back-end PC or server (for Worldox sites, this is typically the Indexer PC).
Tip: Turn OCR off at your scanners and see significant (2 to 5x) improvement in scanning speeds. In fact, Adobe Acrobat turns OCR on by default, and we strongly recommend turning it off. Let Symphony OCR take care of the OCR in the background.