PDF OCR text recognition
Scanned PDFs and PDFs “printed as images” contain no real text. OCR recognizes the text in the page images so you can edit, copy and search it.
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- Files are not uploaded
- No sign-up
- No ads, no watermark
ProOCR is Pro: recognizing and viewing the text is free; saving a searchable PDF or exporting the recognized text needs Pro. See pricing
How to PDF OCR
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Open a scanned PDF or an image
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Choose “Scan & OCR” and start recognition
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Click recognized text to edit it, or save a searchable PDF
Highlights
Ten languages
English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Indonesian. Chinese, Japanese and Korean can be mixed with English on the same page. Table columns are kept apart.
Edit after OCR
Click any recognized block to change it; background colour and size are matched automatically.
Searchable PDF
An invisible text layer is embedded on save, so any reader can search and copy the text.
FAQ
Are my files uploaded?
No. The OCR engine runs in your browser; only the language data is downloaded the first time.
How accurate is it?
Clean printed text is recognized very reliably; handwriting or blurry, skewed scans may contain errors you can fix directly.