OCR PDF

Apply Optical Character Recognition to scanned PDF documents to make them searchable and selectable.

Processed locally — we don't upload your files
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Frequently Asked Questions

English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
Accuracy depends on scan quality. Clear, high-resolution scans typically achieve 90%+ accuracy.
OCR processes each page individually. Large documents may take several minutes depending on your device.
No. All OCR processing happens locally in your browser using Tesseract.js.

Extract text from scanned PDF documents using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Our free OCR tool runs entirely in your browser using Tesseract.js, supporting 10+ languages including English, French, German, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Simply upload a scanned PDF, select your language, and get extracted text with confidence scores. Copy text to clipboard or download as a .txt file. All processing happens locally — your documents never leave your device.

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