How to export a searchable PDF from images by macOS Monterey (Live Text)

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In macOS 12 (Monterey), there is a new feature called Live Text. It can recognize text in the images by OCR.

MacOS's Preview app lets you select text in an image file, and also lets you convert the image to a PDF file. Meanwhile, I did not find a way to export the image into a searchable PDF which can let you search and select text in that exported PDF file.

Is there any way to convert images into a search PDF file in macOS Monterey with Live Text (OCR)?

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In macOS Monterey Ver 12.3.1 and Safari Ver 15.4 at least you can load an image in Safari and click "File" -> "Export as PDF...". Just make sure you enlarge the image to 100% or else Safari will make a ugly formatted PDF. Also, any text highlighted before you export will show up in the PDF doc.

I have not found a way yet to export an Image file as a text readable PDF from Preview.

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