OCR PDF
Extract text from digital PDFs instantly, or run OCR on scanned pages with Tesseract. Works fully in your browser.
Digital PDFs are processed locally and instantly. Scanned PDFs require downloading the OCR engine (~10 MB) once; it is cached for future use.
First OCR run downloads ~10 MB.
Language data is cached by your browser after the first run. Keep the tab open until the progress reaches 100%.
Upload a PDF to extract text or run OCR.
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Extract selectable text from any PDF in your browser. Digital PDFs are read instantly; scanned pages are processed by OCR.