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PDF OCR Online
Extract text from scanned PDFs with OCR online. Render pages and recognize text with Tesseract.js in your browser.
- Private when possible
- No account required
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About this tool
Scanned PDFs are often just pictures of text. PDF OCR renders each page and runs Tesseract.js so you can copy or download the recognized wording as a plain text file.
How to use
- Upload a PDF (scans work best at decent resolution).
- Click Run OCR and wait while pages are rendered and recognized.
- Preview extracted text if shown.
- Download the .txt result.
Features
- Client-side Tesseract.js OCR
- Per-page rendering with pdf.js
- Plain-text download
- Progress feedback
Common use cases
- Digitize paper scans
- Search archive dumps
- Copy quotes from image PDFs
Supported formats
PDF → TXT
Privacy
This tool processes data in your browser. Content is not uploaded to our servers unless a feature explicitly requires a network request.
Limitations
- Accuracy depends on scan quality, language, and fonts.
- This mode downloads text (.txt), not a searchable PDF overlay.
- First run may download OCR language data.
Frequently asked questions
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