It’s helpful to remember that the quality and compelling-ness of your content is still important. What if I use OCR on every single page I’ve ever written ever, do you think I could rank numero uno for every query forever?įorever ever? Unlikely. It’s the early phase, though, and of course standard REP directives still apply. In fact, in our own Indexing pipeline we’re now using OCR on some documents that are without textual content. We’re always trying to find more ways to index quality information. So OCR’d content isn’t considered spammy? And PDFs with standard text, like our SEO Starter Guide, have been indexed and searchable for years. To the rest of the world there may be important distinctions, and it seems like “PDF overlays” could actually be a superset, but let’s not get bogged down by crazy stuff like being accurate.)īottom line, if it’s been OCR’d, yes, it can be indexed. (Though I have limited understanding, I’ve found that when people talk to me about PDF overlays/image+text PDFs/layered PDFs/text searchable PDFs, they’re largely referring to the same thing. For example, we can index text layers beneath the image as found in PDF overlays.
Here’s the basic gist of three questions about OCR’d content/layered PDFs that I was recently asked.Ĭan Google index textual content from OCR? Given this one datapoint*, this post is on my blog. Me: pdf overlay sounds nonsensical? really? so for search, i’m just referring to a text layer under an image in a pdf. Marie: it sounds more nonsensical than fem hyg pro Me: when you read the term “pdf overlay” what do you think? does it sound like a feminine hygiene product?
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