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When to use Repair Scanned PDF

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Use this for scanned PDFs where rebuilding each readable page as a fresh image-based PDF is acceptable.

What the output changes

Pages are rasterized, cleaned and rebuilt into a simplified document. This can remove troublesome structural complexity from scans.

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Raster rebuilding does not preserve searchable/selectable text unless a separate OCR layer is later added.

How Repair Scanned PDF works in FileCarpenter

Repair a troublesome scanned PDF by raster-cleaning every readable page and rebuilding the document into a fresh simplified PDF entirely in the browser.

The focused PDF Tools workspace is designed for a single job at a time. It does not require an account and does not add a FileCarpenter watermark to the downloaded result.