PDF OCR Online for Scanned Documents

Upload a scanned PDF and the tool renders pages locally before OCR. It is built for image-only PDFs where search, copy, and selection do not work.

If Ctrl+F finds nothing, text selection is impossible, or copy-paste returns empty text, the PDF is likely a scan and needs OCR.

PDF.js renders each page into a temporary canvas in the browser. Tesseract.js reads that image and returns text page by page.

Very large PDFs can be slow because every page is processed on your own machine. That keeps files private but shifts the work to your browser.

Use the browser tool to recover plain text from an image or scanned PDF without retyping. For spreadsheet, Markdown, searchable PDF, and API tasks, this page explains subsequent work that the current tool does not automate.

Use sharp screenshots or high-resolution scans with straight pages and strong contrast. If the result is difficult to read, crop or rotate the source and retry. Recognition can miss text, so keep the original until you have checked the result.

The available actions are copy text and download TXT. No DOCX, XLSX, CSV, JSON, Markdown, or searchable PDF file is generated here. You can manually edit the extracted text in another application; structured output and API requirements can be discussed for a paid pilot, without a delivery promise.

Check names, dates, totals, invoice numbers, tables, handwriting, stamps, watermarks, and low-contrast areas before relying on OCR output. OCR saves typing, but important legal, medical, finance, and identity documents still need a human review pass.

For receipts and invoices, verify merchant, vendor, date, subtotal, tax, total, currency, line items, and payment terms. For contracts, verify names, clause numbers, signatures, dates, and page order. For research and books, verify headings, citations, tables, footnotes, and reading order.

Images and PDFs are processed in this browser. If the local engine cannot load, recognition fails rather than uploading the document to a cloud fallback. Before using a separate document service, check its upload disclosure, retention, deletion, and training policies.

Batch OCR processes selected files sequentially, and PDF OCR extracts text from rendered pages. The searchable PDF, Excel, Markdown, and API pages are workflow guides, not additional output modes of this tool.