For most tasks I agree. However once you've done your OCR you already have lost a lot of positional and context information, so for some tasks it might not be g

For most tasks I agree. However once you've done your OCR you already have lost a lot of positional and context information, so for some tasks it might not be good enough. If you have scanned PDFs that follow a template, like an invoice from a repeat supplier, then yeah OCR is definitely the way to go.