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OCR a scanned PDF
Turn a scanned, image-only PDF into one you can search and copy text from. The OCR engine adds an invisible text layer without changing how the page looks.
Drag & drop your PDF file
or click to select a file
Your file is sent over HTTPS, processed on our server, and permanently deleted right after — we never keep a copy.
How it works
OCR a scanned PDF in three steps
- 1
Upload your PDF
Drop the scanned PDF you want to make searchable.
- 2
Run OCR
Our engine recognizes the text and adds a searchable layer.
- 3
Download
Download a searchable, selectable PDF.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- Will the page still look the same?
- Yes. OCR adds an invisible text layer behind the image, so the visual page is unchanged — only now it’s searchable.
- What languages are supported?
- English is recognized by default; the underlying Tesseract engine supports many languages.
- Are pages that already have text re-processed?
- No — pages that already contain text are left as they are, so existing text isn’t degraded.
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