PDF OCR
Convert scanned PDFs to searchable documents with multi-language OCR, page range selection, and text preview.
Free & unlimited
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About this tool
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Upload a scanned PDF
Select the image-based or scanned PDF that lacks selectable text.
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Select OCR language
Choose the language of the text in your document for accurate recognition.
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Run OCR processing
The tool uses optical character recognition to detect text in each page image.
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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.