# Can't see the text content in images that are inside pdf or word file

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-see-the-text-content-in-images-that-are-inside-pdf-or-word-file/180206>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 8, 2019, 3:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-see-the-text-content-in-images-that-are-inside-pdf-or-word-file/180206 "2019-05-08T15:07:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![kumar4](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kumar4/32/48326_2.png) [@kumar4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kumar4)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 3:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-see-the-text-content-in-images-that-are-inside-pdf-or-word-file/180206/1 "2019-05-08T15:07:40Z")

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Hi dears, i ma using fscrawler to index pdf, word ... document and i used tesseract-ocr to extract text content from images indexed with fscrawler; my problem is that i cant see the texte content of images that are inside a pdf document.  
thank you

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 3:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-see-the-text-content-in-images-that-are-inside-pdf-or-word-file/180206/2 "2019-05-08T15:19:44Z")

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It probably means that OCR did not work.  
Could you share a PDF document which has images of text and for which no text was extracted?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-see-the-text-content-in-images-that-are-inside-pdf-or-word-file/180206/3 "2019-06-05T15:24:50Z")

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Closed on June 5, 2019, 3:24pm UTC

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