PDF OCR

Upload a PDF, extract text from every page using OCR, and optionally save as a searchable PDF. All processing happens in your browser.

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About PDF OCR

PDF OCR extracts text from scanned or image-based PDFs using optical character recognition. Upload a PDF where pages are images (common with scanned documents, forms, or faxed paperwork) and get the text content extracted page by page.

Image-based PDFs are not searchable and their text cannot be copied. OCR converts them to text, making the content usable in other applications. This is particularly valuable for digitizing archives of scanned paperwork.

Features

✓Extracts text from image-based or scanned PDFs
✓Page-by-page text extraction
✓Copy all extracted text or per-page
✓Runs locally in-browser via Tesseract.js
✓No server upload

Common Use Cases

→Making scanned form PDFs searchable
→Digitizing scanned document archives
→Extracting text from faxed paperwork
→Converting image-based PDFs to editable text