Use optical character recognition (OCR) to make scanned PDFs searchable and extract their text content.
How It Works
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Upload your scanned PDF
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Our OCR engine recognizes text on every page
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Download the searchable PDF or plain text file
Common Use Cases
Make scanned documents searchable
Extract text from PDF images
Digitize paper documents
Prepare scanned PDFs for Word conversion
Frequently Asked Questions
Which languages are supported?
Tesseract supports 100+ languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Arabic, and more.
How accurate is the OCR?
Clean, high-resolution scans achieve 95%+ accuracy. Blurry or handwritten text may be less accurate.
Is OCR available on the free plan?
OCR is a Pro-only feature due to its processing requirements.
Ready to OCR PDF?
Free to use. No signup required. Runs in your browser.
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