Text Layer PDF Software for Windows

Use GiliSoft Formathor when recognition-based workflows need searchable PDF output with a text layer that is easier to find, review, and archive.

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What This Workflow Covers

Create searchable PDF output from recognition-based tasks
Make scanned or recognized material easier to search and reuse
Keep OCR and PDF handling inside one Windows conversion workflow

Common Use Cases

Archive-friendly searchable PDFs

Create PDFs with a text layer when teams need documents that are easier to search later in records, archives, or internal libraries.

Recognition-first document workflows

Use text-layer PDF output when image recognition or OCR is only the first step and the final result still needs to behave like a searchable PDF.

FAQ

Why does a text layer matter in PDF workflows?

A text layer makes the PDF easier to search and generally more practical for downstream review, retrieval, and document handling than an image-only page output.

More Options

Need broader recognition and image tools too?

See HEIC and RAW image converter, batch image resize, crop, rename software, and OCR and image recognition tools.