PDF OCR
Extract text from scanned PDFs using optical character recognition
Drop a PDF file here
Upload a scanned PDF to extract text via OCR
Best for: Scanned documents, photographed pages, and PDFs where text cannot be selected. For digital PDFs with selectable text, use the PDF to Text tool instead — it's faster and more accurate.
How to Use
- 1Upload a scanned PDF document.
- 2Click Run OCR to start text recognition.
- 3Wait for the processing to complete.
- 4Download the searchable PDF with extracted text.
Key Features
- Extract text from scanned documents
- Makes PDFs searchable
- Supports multiple languages
- Browser-based OCR processing
- Preserves original layout
- No upload to external servers