What it does
Make a scanned PDF text-searchable using OCR. Rasterizes a PDF and runs OCR to produce a searchable-text PDF layer.
Inputs and limits
Command line options
--language(string, default "eng"): Tesseract language code (default 'eng').--remove-scanned-images(bool, default false): Drop the original scanned image layer.
MCP parameters of make_searchable
fileUrl(string, required): Public URL of the scanned PDFlang(string): OCR language code (e.g. en, de, fr)
Web app
Open the web app: Make a PDF searchable.
Command line (CLI)
The Documentize.OcrSearchable plugin: Rasterizes a PDF and runs OCR to produce a searchable-text PDF layer.
Replace input-file with your file and add the options listed above after --task-id job1.
# Linux / macOS (needs the .NET 10 runtime and documentize.lic next to the DLL)
export PLUGIN_INPUT_DIR=./work/input
export PLUGIN_OUTPUT_DIR=./work/output
mkdir -p "$PLUGIN_INPUT_DIR/job1"
cp input-file "$PLUGIN_INPUT_DIR/job1/"
dotnet Documentize.OcrSearchable.dll --task-id job1
ls "$PLUGIN_OUTPUT_DIR/job1"
# Windows PowerShell
$env:PLUGIN_INPUT_DIR = "$PWD\work\input"
$env:PLUGIN_OUTPUT_DIR = "$PWD\work\output"
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force "$env:PLUGIN_INPUT_DIR\job1" | Out-Null
Copy-Item input-file "$env:PLUGIN_INPUT_DIR\job1\"
dotnet Documentize.OcrSearchable.dll --task-id job1
Get-ChildItem "$env:PLUGIN_OUTPUT_DIR\job1"
All command line plugins: Documentize CLI plugins.
MCP
make_searchable: Make a scanned PDF text-searchable using OCR. Returns a task ID.
Client configuration (the key comes from your Documentize account):
{
"mcpServers": {
"documentize": {
"url": "https://api.documentize.app/mcp",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer dmk_YOUR_KEY_HERE"
}
}
}
}
Tool call (tools/call). The tool returns a task id; poll get_task_status until it reports 200, then download the file from uploadFileName:
{
"name": "make_searchable",
"arguments": {
"fileUrl": "https://example.org/document.pdf"
}
}
About the MCP server: Documentize MCP server.
Related guides
- OCR Image: web app, CLI and MCP
- Extract text from PDF: web app, CLI, MCP and C#
- Search: web app, CLI and MCP
Verification status
Not verified. This guide is built from the product documentation and the app's own page. The commands and calls above have not been run successfully, so they may need changes, and the file names in them are placeholders. Written on 2026-11-04; a verified guide replaces this page when the app passes the checks.