OCR PDF — Make Scanned PDFs Searchable

Make scanned and image-based PDFs searchable and selectable.

Click or drag a scanned PDF here

PDF only · Up to 50MB · Processing may take a minute

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How OCR turns scanned PDFs into searchable text

We render each page to an image, run Tesseract OCR over it, and rebuild a PDF with an invisible text layer behind the original image. The page looks identical, but text is now selectable, copyable, and searchable.

OCR accuracy depends on scan quality. Sharp 300 DPI scans of typed text approach 99%; faded photocopies and handwriting are harder.

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