PDF OCR
Extract text from scanned PDFs using Tesseract.js OCR with language auto-detect and searchable PDF export
Drop your PDF here to extract text
Upload a PDF to extract its text content
Your file never leaves your device. All processing happens locally in your browser.
How to Use This Tool
Upload a scanned PDF or image-based PDF.
Select the language of the text in the document.
Click "Run OCR" to extract text from the images. Copy or download the result.
About This Tool
PDF OCR (Optical Character Recognition) extracts text from scanned PDFs and image-based documents. The tool recognizes printed text in multiple languages and converts it into selectable, searchable, and copyable text. Useful for digitizing paper documents, receipts, and scanned pages.
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