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OCR PDF
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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
- 1Open a scanned or image-heavy PDF.
- 2Choose searchable PDF or plain text.
- 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.