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PDF OCR (Scan to Text)

Extract text from scanned PDFs in 100+ languages with Tesseract — the OCR engine runs right in your browser, no upload on server.

How this works— tap to see the steps

1
Drop a scanned PDF
If you can't select text with your cursor, it's an image — perfect for OCR.
2
Recognise the text
The tool reads every page and turns pictures of words into real, selectable text.
3
Save searchable PDF
Export a PDF you can search and copy from — or grab the text as .txt.

Watch: photo of text becomes selectable text

Drop a scanned PDF

PDF — first run downloads a ~10 MB language pack

Tip: you can also paste an image with ⌘V / Ctrl V

LanguageQuality

Accurate uses 3× render and PNG pages — best for small print.

OCR happens in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

Drop a scanned PDF, pick a language, then press Extract.

How this works — and why it's private

Every page renders locally, then Tesseract reads the pixels and returns text plus word positions.
We rebuild the PDF with your original page image and an invisible text layer aligned to each word — so you can highlight, copy and search.
Everything runs on your device. The PDF never leaves your browser.

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