PDF OCR — Extract Text
Extract text from scanned or image-based PDFs. Runs entirely in your browser — no uploads, no servers.
100% In-Browser Processing. Your files never leave your device.
Drop a PDF here
Scanned or image-based PDFs work best
OCR Settings
Language data is downloaded once and cached by your browser.
OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition — a technology that analyses the pixels in a scanned image or image-based PDF and converts them into actual, selectable, searchable text. When you scan a physical document, the result is essentially a photograph of text, not actual digital text. OCR bridges this gap by recognising the shapes of letters and numbers in the image and producing machine-readable text output. This makes scanned documents searchable, copyable, and editable.