“Obtain Text” retrieves text directly from the file being printed via the text layer in the file. This function works well for electronic documents such as those provided by Microsoft or Adobe. This is a good option unless the file does not have a text layer, in which case OCR should be used. This is the case for PDFs that are not searchable. The advantage of using “Obtain text” is that it is much faster and requires less resources than OCR, Additionally, because the text is being pulled directly from the file instead of being read from the page, the accuracy is greatly increased with the use of “obtain text”. Consider making “Obtain text” the default and if, upon printing, text is missing from a document, it can be OCR’ed in the Client.