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PDF OCR

Convert scanned PDFs to searchable documents with multi-language OCR, page range selection, and text preview.

Free & unlimited
Processed on our servers and deleted right after. Never stored or shared.

About this tool

  1. 1

    Upload a scanned PDF

    Select the image-based or scanned PDF that lacks selectable text.

  2. 2

    Select OCR language

    Choose the language of the text in your document for accurate recognition.

  3. 3

    Run OCR processing

    The tool uses optical character recognition to detect text in each page image.

  4. 4

    Download searchable PDF

    Save the output PDF which now has an invisible text layer behind each page image.

  • Higher resolution scans (300 DPI or above) produce significantly better OCR accuracy.
  • Select the correct language to improve recognition of special characters and accents.
  • Clean, high-contrast scans with dark text on white backgrounds give the best results.
  • OCR processing time increases with page count - large documents may take a minute or two.
  • Adds a searchable text layer to scanned PDF pages
  • Support for multiple languages and character sets
  • Preserves the original scanned page images
  • Enables text selection, search, and copy in the output PDF
  • Processes all pages in a multi-page document
  • Make scanned contracts and legal documents searchable
  • Enable text extraction from scanned books or archives
  • Prepare scanned forms for data extraction workflows
  • Convert paper documents to searchable digital archives for compliance
Text extraction reads existing text data embedded in a PDF. OCR recognizes text from images where no text data exists, such as scanned pages.
Accuracy depends on scan quality, font clarity, and language. Expect 95-99% accuracy on clean scans and lower on poor quality or handwritten text.
No. OCR adds an invisible text layer behind the original page images. The visual appearance stays the same.

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