Yes. Flow uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to identify and extract textual content from images where possible. Once text has been extracted, it will become fully editable in Article View.
If you can select text with your cursor or copy and paste text into another application, then your PDF already contains embedded text data, and Flow should process it normally.
OCR generally works best with:
- High-resolution images
- Clear, readable fonts
- Strong contrast between text and background
- Horizontally aligned text
Flow’s OCR may struggle with:
- Low-resolution images
- Decorative or handwritten fonts
- Text placed over complex graphics
For best results:
- Use high-quality source PDFs
- Avoid excessive compression of image-heavy documents
- Ensure text is clearly legible
- Use standard fonts where necessary
If at all possible, we recommend using PDFs containing selectable text instead of flattened image-based pages.