When Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is performed on a document in a Paperless library either by import or the "Recognize Text" command, the plain text OCR output is written to a special field: OCR Text.

The OCR Text field is included by default in the Fields list under Library Configuration > Data Types, but it is not shown by default by any document type.

In order to show raw OCR text results for a document:

1. Go to View>Library Configuration.

2. Select a document type.

3. Drag OCR text field from the Fields column to the display column.

4. Hint: Display fields are shown from top to bottom, drag and drop fields to re-order them in the list. The results will appear in view once you click done.

Note: Text recognized is not written to the PDF file itself, but exists in the Paperless database and can be modified, corrected and used in searches.