# OCR PDF Online

> OCR PDF online for free — make scans searchable in your browser. Private, no signup, no watermarks. English by default, best-effort.

Canonical: https://mypdf.space/tools/ocr-pdf
Last updated: 2026-10-26

## Short answer

Pick the document language, run Tesseract in your browser, and download a searchable PDF. Proofread numbers and names — OCR is never perfect.

## About this tool

Make scanned pages searchable with local browser OCR (Tesseract). English, Hindi, Spanish, German, or French — language packs download on first use.

Make scanned pages searchable with browser OCR — free, private, no upload.

OCR PDF online for free — make scanned or image-heavy pages searchable with browser OCR (Tesseract). English is the default. Invisible text is fitted to word boxes — good enough for find and copy, not Adobe glyph-perfect. Multi-page docs can take a few minutes; low-confidence words are skipped to reduce garbage text. Run this before PDF to Word or Extract text on scans. Nothing is uploaded.

## How to use

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

## What you need

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

## Notes

- 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.

## Use cases

- Make a scanned binder searchable with Ctrl+F.
- Prepare scans for PDF to Word or text extract.
- Index archived paper documents on your own machine.

## FAQ

### Is OCR perfect?

No. Text placement is good enough for search and copy, not glyph-perfect. Low-confidence words are skipped to reduce garbage text.

### Does OCR run on a server?

No. Tesseract.js runs in your browser. Multi-page docs can take a few minutes.

### Is OCR PDF free with no watermark?

Yes — free, no account, and no watermark on the searchable PDF.

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