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OCR PDF — make scanned PDFs searchable

Recognise the text in scanned pages so you can search, select and copy it.

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How it works

How to ocr pdf — make scanned pdfs searchable

  1. Click Select PDF files or drag and drop them into the box above.
  2. Adjust the options in the sidebar.
  3. Press Run OCR and wait a moment.
  4. Download your files. Multiple results are bundled in a ZIP.
Privacy

Private by design

Turn scanned PDFs into searchable PDFs with OCR. The pages look exactly the same, but the text becomes selectable, searchable and copyable.

Image edits run inside your browser whenever possible. Anything sent to the server is deleted automatically within minutes of you downloading it.