Identify Native PDF
A native PDF is a PDF that was downloaded directly from a financial institution and uploaded without being scanned or printed. For example, a 1099 form downloaded directly from the Bank of America website. OCR auto verifies native PDF by extracting text layer placed on the document.
Native PDF documents are created by a PDF creator/editor software. The following software can create native PDF:
- Adobe LiveCycle Designer
- Adobe Acrobat Reader Pro
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Illustrator
- Aspose.PDF
- iText
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
A printed or scanned document is a non-native PDF. An uploaded document can have native and non-native pages. Similarly, a single page can have both an auto-verified native text layer and OCR scanned elements. If a page has a native text layer and printed elements, then the native text layer will be selected as an auto-verified field and the printed elements will be selected by OCR. A document that is printed then scanned, will no longer be considered a native PDF.
