Can Search+ read scanned PDFs?
Yes. Search+ includes OCR, so scanned PDFs and other documents that require text recognition can be processed and used in your answers. Processing can take longer for documents with many scanned pages.
A scanned PDF is an image of each page rather than text. OCR (optical character recognition) turns those images into text that Search+ can search, quote and cite.
Recognition quality depends on the scan: clean, upright, high-contrast pages read best. As with any answer, open the citation to check the excerpt behind an important claim.
OCR availability as stated by Search+, October 2026.
Related questions
Which file types does Search+ support?
Search+ supports PDF, Word (DOCX) and Excel (XLSX) files, and you can keep different file types together in one workspace and ask questions across them.
How long does it take Search+ to process a PDF?
There is no fixed time: how long Search+ takes to process an uploaded PDF depends on the size and the structure of that file.
Can AI read a PDF and answer questions about it?
Yes. AI document tools extract the text from a PDF, find the passages related to your question and write an answer from them.
How do I check where a claim in an answer comes from?
Open the inline citation next to the claim to read the excerpt from your document that it is based on, with a page or section when available.
Last reviewed 2026-10-11 by the Search+ team
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