OCR PDF

Make scanned PDFs searchable with OCR

Drag & drop your scanned PDF here

Accepted: .pdf (max 100 MB) �?OCR may take longer for large files

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    About OCR PDF

    Apply Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to scanned PDF documents to make them searchable and selectable. After OCR processing, you can search, copy, and select text within the PDF. The original layout and images are preserved while an invisible text layer is added on top. Supports English text recognition.

    Powered by Tesseract OCR engine, this tool supports multiple languages and produces high-quality searchable PDFs from scanned documents.

    How to OCR a PDF

    1. Upload your scanned PDF file
    2. Click "Run OCR"
    3. Wait for text recognition (may take several minutes for large files)
    4. Download the searchable PDF

    Frequently Asked Questions

    English is the default. The OCR engine supports many languages through Tesseract language packs installed on the server.

    OCR requires converting each page to an image, then analyzing every character. Large documents with many pages naturally take longer.