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PDF OCR

Make scanned PDF searchable

Drop your scanned PDF here

or click to browse (scanned PDF files)

OCR Settings

pages to process

OCR Complete!

Your PDF is now searchable with words recognized.

How to Use PDF OCR

1

Upload Scanned PDF

Upload your scanned or image-based PDF document.

2

OCR Processing

Tesseract.js analyzes each page and recognizes all text content.

3

Download Searchable PDF

Download your PDF with an invisible text layer, making it fully searchable.

Frequently Asked Questions

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) scans each page of your PDF, recognizes text in images, and adds an invisible searchable text layer on top.
Tesseract.js supports over 100 languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and Hindi.
For clear, well-scanned documents with printed text, accuracy typically exceeds 95%. Quality depends on scan resolution and text clarity.
No. The original appearance is preserved. An invisible text layer is added behind the images so text can be selected and searched.
Processing time depends on the number of pages and complexity. Typically 5-15 seconds per page for standard documents.

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