GSOC meta issue: OCR Integration in JabRef

[Siedlerchr]

Is your suggestion for improvement related to a problem? Please describe. As a User I want to be able to extract text from pdf documents and use that for searching

Describe the solution you'd like A solution that extracts text via OCR and makes it searchable

Additional context https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/wiki/GSOC-2025-ideas-list#improve-handling-of-ancient-documents-by-ocr-and-ai

[Kaan0029]

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