PDF OCR / Text Extractor

Extract selectable text, or run OCR on a scanned PDF. The file stays on your device.

Your PDF stays on this device. Selectable text is used when it exists. Scanned pages run OCR locally with Tesseract — language data may be fetched from a CDN the first time.

PDF

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Upload a scanned PDF to run OCR, or a digital PDF to extract its text.

Worked example

A scanned one-page letter with almost no selectable text is rendered and read with Tesseract in the browser. You can copy the result or download letter-ocr.txt.

FAQ

When is OCR used?: If the PDF already has a solid text layer, that text is used and OCR is skipped. Sparse scans run OCR page by page.
How accurate is OCR?: It depends on the scan. Faint, skewed, or handwritten pages will misread. Check the output.
Does the file leave the device?: The PDF stays local. Tesseract may fetch language data from a CDN the first time.