Why is my PDF not being reviewed by Legartis after uploading?
If an uploaded .pdf document appears completely white in Legartis – i.e. it does not contain any coloured markings (highlighting) or annotations by AI – this is due to the nature of the document.
The reason: The PDF is an image.
The document does not contain machine-readable text, but is an image. This is usually the case when the .pdf was created by a scanner (scanned documents).
Since it is technically difficult to extract text from images, the AI:
cannot access the text.
cannot evaluate and check the content.
cannot add coloured markings.
Solution: Perform text recognition (OCR)
In order for Legartis to check the document, the text in the PDF must be made machine-readable:
Conversion: Use other software to convert the document from ‘image to text’.
This process is also known as OCR (Optical Character Recognition).Re-upload: Re-upload the now machine-readable document to the Legartis platform. The check should now start successfully.