OCR Text Recognition
Recognize text from scanned and image-based PDF pages.
PDF OCR
Convert Scanned PDFs to Text
Extract readable text from scanned PDF documents directly in your browser using OCR. No account, server upload, or complicated software required.
English OCR is enabled in the first version.
Higher quality can improve recognition but may take longer.
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Processed in Your Browser
Your PDF is processed locally in your browser. The file does not need to be uploaded to our server for OCR.
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PDF to OCR
Extract Text from Scanned PDF Documents
Use OCR to recognize text inside scanned PDFs and image-based documents. Convert non-selectable text into searchable and editable text for easier reuse.
Useful for students, businesses, researchers, offices, developers, and anyone who needs to extract text from scanned or image-based PDF files.
Free to Use
OCR Text Recognition
Searchable Text
Browser Based
Quick Tool Overview
The All Free Tool's PDF to OCR tool uses optical character recognition to identify text inside scanned PDFs and image-based documents.
Upload a PDF and process its pages to recognize text. The extracted content can then be searched, copied, edited, or used in other document workflows.
OCR accuracy depends on factors such as scan quality, resolution, font style, page orientation, language, image clarity, and the complexity of the document.
About PDF to OCR
What Is OCR?
Optical Character Recognition, commonly called OCR, is technology that analyzes images containing text and converts recognized characters into machine-readable text.
Why Use OCR on a PDF?
Scanned PDFs often contain pages as images rather than actual text. OCR can make the information inside those pages searchable and easier to copy, edit, and process.
Scanned PDF Support
OCR is especially useful for scanned contracts, receipts, forms, books, reports, invoices, certificates, and other documents where normal text selection does not work.
How the PDF to OCR Tool Works
Upload a PDF containing scanned or image-based pages. The OCR process analyzes the page images, identifies recognizable characters, and produces machine-readable text from the document.
Review OCR Results
OCR is not guaranteed to recognize every character perfectly. Always review important names, numbers, dates, addresses, financial values, and other critical information before using the extracted text.
Key Features
Scanned PDF Support
Extract text from PDFs where the content is stored as page images.
Searchable Text
Turn recognized content into text that can be searched and reused.
Copyable Content
Extract recognized text so it can be copied into other applications and documents.
Multi-Page Documents
Process supported PDFs containing multiple scanned pages.
Document Digitization
Convert information locked inside document images into machine-readable text.
Business Documents
Useful for supported invoices, forms, receipts, reports, and other business documents.
Student Friendly
Extract text from scanned study materials, notes, books, and research documents.
Quick Processing
Process supported PDF documents through a straightforward OCR workflow.
Browser Based
Use the OCR tool directly from your browser without installing additional software.
How to Use the PDF to OCR Tool
Follow these simple steps to extract text from scanned PDF documents.
Select Your PDF
Choose the scanned or image-based PDF from which you want to extract text.
Pro Tip: Higher-resolution scans generally provide better OCR results.
Upload the PDF
Upload your selected PDF into the OCR tool using the file upload area.
Pro Tip: Make sure the document pages are readable and not heavily blurred or distorted.
Select OCR Options
Choose available OCR settings such as language or page options when supported by the tool.
Pro Tip: Selecting the correct document language can improve recognition accuracy.
Start OCR Processing
Start the OCR process and allow the tool to analyze the pages of your PDF.
Pro Tip: Large multi-page documents may take longer to process.
Review Extracted Text
Review the recognized text and check whether the characters and words were detected correctly.
Pro Tip: Carefully check numbers, dates, punctuation, and special characters.
Correct OCR Errors
Edit any incorrectly recognized words, characters, spacing, or formatting.
Pro Tip: OCR output should always be reviewed before being used for important documents.
Copy or Export the Text
Copy the recognized text or use the available export option to save it for another workflow.
Pro Tip: Save an editable copy before making extensive changes to the extracted content.
Compare with the Original
Compare the OCR output against the original PDF pages to confirm important information.
Pro Tip: Verification is especially important for legal, financial, medical, and official documents.
Organize the Extracted Content
Move the recognized text into your preferred document, spreadsheet, database, or content workflow.
Pro Tip: Clean headings, spacing, and line breaks before using extracted text in a new document.
Save the Final Text
Save the reviewed OCR output in the format required for your project or document workflow.
Pro Tip: Keep the original PDF as a reference whenever the extracted text is important.