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OCR PDF.

Turn scanned PDFs into searchable, selectable text using on-device OCR. Supports 100+ languages. Usually a paid feature - free here.

Drop a scanned PDF to OCR
On-device in 100+ languages - usually paid, free here
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Network uploads during this session
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File size limit
None (browser memory)
Output watermark
None

Frequently asked

What is OCR?
Optical Character Recognition - software that reads text from images of text (like scanned documents).
What languages are supported?
Over 100, including English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Hindi, and many more.
Is the scanned PDF uploaded anywhere?
Never. OCR runs with Tesseract.js in your browser. Adobe charges for this - we don't, and we don't see your document.
How accurate is it?
90%+ for clean scans, lower for handwriting or bad quality scans.
Can I still keep the original layout?
Yes. The OCR text is added as an invisible layer over the image, so selection works but the page looks identical.
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