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OCR PDF

Free · no watermark · files stay on your device

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About this tool

Make scanned pages searchable with browser OCR (Tesseract). English by default — best-effort placement for find/copy, not Adobe glyph-perfect.

How to use OCR PDF

  1. 1Open a scanned or image-heavy PDF.
  2. 2Choose searchable PDF or plain text.
  3. 3Run OCR (multi-page docs can take a few minutes) and download.

You need

  • A PDF (usually scanned/image pages)
  • A few minutes for multi-page docs

Honest limits

  • Runs Tesseract.js in your browser (English by default) at high render DPI.
  • Invisible text is fitted to each word box — good enough for search/copy, not glyph-perfect.
  • Low-confidence words are skipped to reduce garbage text.