OCR PDF
Read scanned PDF pages with on-device OCR. Download a searchable PDF or a text file. Recognition runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
Click to choose or drop a PDF here
Ready. OCR stays on your device.
About OCR PDF
Run OCR on a scanned PDF in your browser with this free OCR PDF tool. Open a document, read each page with on-device recognition, then download a searchable PDF or a plain text file. Recognition stays on your device. Nothing is uploaded to a server.
People OCR a scan when a contract, receipt, or homework pack is a picture of pages and cannot be selected. Students grab quotes from a photographed paper. Offices search an archive of faxes. English is the recognition language. Dense photos and handwritten notes may miss words.
Choose a PDF within the size and page limits, pick searchable PDF or text, then run OCR. Password protected files should be unlocked first with Remove PDF Password. After OCR you can convert the text with PDF to Markdown or PDF to Word.
All recognition happens locally, so scans and personal papers never leave the browser. Use this free OCR PDF tool, scanned PDF to text utility, and searchable PDF converter whenever a document needs private optical character recognition.