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I have some legal documents in PDF form that need my signature on some pages. I would like to store these, including my scanned signature, online. I plan to use tools to concatenate the pages that don't require my signature with those that do. Is there a way to make all of the pages searchable without OCR, given that I have the original PDF, which is searchable.

This is similar to the question How to make a searchable PDF document from a scan AND a source Word document?, posted in 2012, which never got an answer that did not involve OCR.

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You should be able to insert an image into an existing PDF using online tools or an application, e.g., online PDF editor, Adobe Acrobat, or Preview for macOS. Nitro PDF and PhantomPDF are other commercial applications to edit a PDF file.

Some caveats, though:

  • If this is a legal document with personal information or with restricted availability, you might want to avoid online services.
  • Make a copy of the document, with a different filename from the original, add the image, and test that it is still searchable with the image.
  • Keep the original PDF and image files. Zipped together, they should take up no more room then the PDF with image inline.
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No, I don't think there would be a way for that.

Also it'd be risky as without an OCR there is no way to make sure text and scan is actually the same.

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