PDF OCR
Extract text from scanned PDFs using OCR. Each page is rendered and processed with Optical Character Recognition to extract text. Supports 20+ languages. 100% client-side.
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Drop a PDF file here or click to upload
Scanned or image-based PDFs
How to OCR a Scanned PDF
- Select the language of the text in your PDF.
- Upload a PDF file by dropping it in the upload zone or clicking to browse.
- Each page is rendered as an image, then processed with OCR to extract text.
- Copy the combined text to clipboard or download as a TXT file.
Features
- OCR for scanned PDFs -- works with image-only PDF documents
- Page-by-page progress indicator showing current page and OCR percentage
- Supports 20+ languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hindi, and Russian
- No file size limits -- handles large PDFs
- Combined text output for all pages
- One-click copy to clipboard or download as TXT
- 100% client-side processing -- your PDFs never leave your device
- No sign-up required, completely free
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