Win11 Getting started with PDFKeeper

[JohnBasil-vet]

Hello,
New to both GitHub and PDFKeeper;
I do not understand the references to "setting up a database", or "SQL-speak"
Situation:
I have downloaded large PDF scans of WWII documents (some over 1150+ pages) From:
NARA, https://firstdivisionmuseum.nmtvault.com/jsp/searchresults.jsp, etc.
Evidently, the latter uses "proseek" software... which led me to finding PDFKeeper through the internet.

Is there a step-by-step setup guide for Windows 11 pro?

I would like to try PDFKeeper to OCR scan/convert these for searching/copy/pasting... vs. scrolling through hundreds of pages, and retyping the text.
to date, conventional software (both paid and "free") typically require hours of processing.
My machine:

Device name Lenovo P720
Processor Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8160 CPU @ 2.10GHz (2.10 GHz) (2 processors)
Installed RAM 384 GB (383 GB usable)
Graphics card NVIDIA RTX A4000 (16 GB)
Storage 1.04 TB of 12.28 TB used
Data is currently on an 8TB 16x PCIe NVMe RAID 0 drive.
Edition Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
Version 25H2
Installed on ‎4/‎28/‎2025
OS build 26200.8875
Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.334.0

(not sure if any of this is even relevant)

Currently, Wondershare PDFelement is in use; 250 of 500 pages required well over an hour (only minimal apps/software running in the background)
fwiw, I have downloaded/installed the fonts "Hermes 1943" and "Special Elite"... that after research, are the closest fonts/typefaces that appear to have been in use with WWII-era U.S. Army ETO typewriters (footnote: I am not sure of what size font/typeface to indicate)

(likewise, not sure if this is relevant)

In order to compensate for "Gateway timeouts" while downloading 1100+ page documents, I downlod them in 500-page "chunks"... hoping to, eventually "slpice" them to together as a single document

Assuming successful installation of PDFKeeper on this PC, might I expect better results?

Thank you for any useful information
John
p.s. attached is a scanned image of an example of said document

[rffrasca]

After reading over your use case, I'm thinking you're looking to convert these PDF documents into searchable PDF's? This is the process of performing OCR on each page and then add the text to a layer in the PDF. This will allow you to perform the same functions that you can perform on a text-based PDF such as copy, save text, and search. If this is what you're looking to accomplish, then PDFKeeper is not what you're looking for. PDFKeeper is a PDF document management system that allows storage of PDF documents in a database. When the PDFs are added, the document metadata would be updated if the Title, Author, or Subject is blank and the text is extracted from the PDF pages either using text extraction or OCR and then stored in a database for full-text search. The text extraction is only that, the PDF is not converted to searchable.