PDF OCR — Extract Text from Scanned PDFs Free
Make scanned PDFs searchable by running OCR on every page. Our tool renders each PDF page as an image, runs Tesseract OCR on it, and delivers the extracted text as a downloadable file.
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Files stay on your device · Up to 200 MB
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How to Use PDF OCR
Why Use Our PDF OCR Tool?
Scanned PDFs are images — they cannot be searched or copied. OCR converts the visual content to real text, enabling search, copy-paste, and further editing without any server involvement.
Frequently Asked Questions
Approximately 3–10 seconds per page depending on your device. A 10-page scan takes about 1 minute.
Tesseract handles multi-column text but accuracy decreases with complex layouts.
English by default. Multi-language support is planned.
No — OCR output is plain text. Formatting, columns, and layout are not reconstructed.