Extract text from scanned PDFs using OCR
Last updated: 2026-10-08
OCR PDF is a free online tool that converts scanned, image-based PDFs into searchable text using optical character recognition, supporting both English and Hindi. It solves the core limitation of scanned documents — that their content is stored as images rather than selectable text — by recognizing characters in the scanned image and embedding a corresponding text layer. This makes the resulting PDF searchable, copyable, and compatible with the PDF to Text extraction tool, which otherwise can't read scanned-only documents. OCR processing happens entirely in the browser, so scanned documents — which often contain personal or sensitive information — are never uploaded to a server. There is no page limit and no file-size cap, though OCR accuracy depends on scan quality and font clarity. The tool requires no account or installation, and works identically across desktop and mobile browsers, with processing time scaling with document length and image resolution.
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