Highlighting text will allow you to copy, and searching the page will showcase results for the phrase entered. There doesn’t seem to be any difference in the viewer from one document to another.

Google is finally addressing this limitation on Chrome for desktop. The browser now supports OCR for scanned PDFs, allowing you to highlight text, copy content, and search within the document.

Google will soon start rolling out a new feature for Google Lens in Google Photos that lets users search for text in pictures and screenshots as well as copy and paste text from images.

Steps: Open the PDF in Soda PDF, select the text using the "Edit" menu, right-click to copy, and then paste the text into a new text box or another application.