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OCR PDF

Convert scanned PDF documents into editable and searchable text using OCR technology.

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Drag & drop your PDF here

or click to browse — scanned or image-based PDF · up to 200 MB

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How it works

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1. Upload

Drop your scanned or image-based PDF

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2. Language

Choose the document language for best accuracy

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3. OCR

Tesseract reads each page and extracts text

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4. Export

Copy, download TXT or get a searchable PDF

About OCR PDF

Upload any scanned or image-based PDF and extract all text using Tesseract OCR — entirely in your browser. Supports English, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian, German, French, Spanish, Italian and more. Each page is rendered at high resolution and processed individually with real-time progress. Download the extracted text as a TXT file or copy it directly. Also generates a searchable PDF with an invisible text layer overlaid on the original images — making the document fully searchable in any PDF viewer. No files are uploaded to any server.

Frequently Asked Questions

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is a technology that detects and extracts text from images and scanned documents. Instead of reading a PDF as raw text, OCR analyses the visual appearance of characters on each page and converts them into selectable, editable text.

Yes. This tool is specifically designed for scanned and image-based PDFs where the text is embedded as pictures rather than actual characters. Each page is rendered to an image and processed by Tesseract OCR to extract the text.

English, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese are included. Select your document's language before starting OCR for the best accuracy.

Yes. Your PDF never leaves your device. All rendering and OCR processing runs entirely in your browser using pdfjs-dist and Tesseract.js — no data is uploaded to any server.

Yes, completely free with no account required and no usage limits.

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