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PDF OCR — Scanned PDF to Text

Turn scanned PDF pages into text you can copy, edit or save, with the recognition running in your browser.

Processed on your device
  • Five recognition languages
  • Page-by-page progress
  • Copy or download recognised text
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First use downloads the OCR engine and language data from a public CDN.

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How to use PDF OCR — Scanned PDF to Text

  1. Drop your scanned PDF and pick the document’s language.
  2. Run OCR — each page is read on your device, with live progress.
  3. Copy the recognised text or download it as a .txt file.

PDF OCR — Scanned PDF to Text: your questions answered

Does OCR make the PDF itself searchable?

This tool exports the recognised words as plain text. It does not add a searchable text layer to the original PDF. You can copy the words or download a TXT file.

Is the PDF uploaded for recognition?

No. Your browser downloads the OCR engine and a language model on the first run. The PDF pages are rendered and recognised on your device. Cached downloads may make later runs quicker.

How accurate is scanned PDF OCR?

Clear printed text usually works better than blurry scans, handwriting or complex layouts. Check names, numbers and punctuation carefully. The confidence score helps with review but is not a guarantee of correctness.

Which languages are supported?

English, Spanish, French, German and Portuguese. Choose the matching language before starting recognition.

Privacy

This tool runs entirely in your browser. Your file is processed on your device and is not uploaded to a server. You do not have to take that on trust — the monitor directly beneath the tool reads your browser’s own record of every request this tab made while your file was open.

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