OCR PDF
Convert PDF scans into searchable text.
Select PDF file for OCR
or drop PDFs here
OCR PDF uses Tesseract OCR to scan a PDF's pages and pull out the text they contain, which you can copy to your clipboard or download as a plain text file — useful for getting usable text out of scanned documents or image-only PDFs. Recognition accuracy tracks scan quality closely: a clean, straight, well-lit scan at 300 DPI reads far more reliably than a skewed or low-resolution one, since OCR is matching character shapes rather than truly reading the page. Processing runs on the server and the uploaded file is not retained afterward.
What you can do with the OCR PDF
Powered by Tesseract OCR
Scans each page as an image and recognizes the text on it.
Extracts the full document
Every page is processed and combined into one text result.
Copy or download as .txt
Grab the text instantly with one click, or save it as a plain text file.
Deleted immediately after processing
Your file is uploaded temporarily to run OCR on it, then deleted right away.
How to use the OCR PDF
- 1Open OCR PDF and upload your scanned or image-only PDF.
- 2Click Extract Text.
- 3Review the extracted text in the results panel.
- 4Copy it to your clipboard or download it as a .txt file.
Common ways people use this
- Pulling quotable text out of a scanned contract or old document
- Extracting text from a photographed page to paste into an email or note
- Getting a rough transcript of a scanned book chapter or article
- Recovering text from a PDF that has no selectable text layer at all