OCR PDF — Extract Text from Scanned Documents
AI-powered text recognition running locally in your browser. Supports 100+ languages.
Select PDF files
Drag and drop multiple PDF files here, or click to browse.Everything stays in your browser.
How OCR Text Extraction Works
Our tool renders each PDF page at high resolution, then uses neural network-based character recognition to extract readable text.
Upload PDF
Select your scanned or image-based PDF document.
300 DPI Render
Each page is rendered at high resolution for maximum OCR accuracy.
AI Recognition
Tesseract.js neural network identifies characters and words.
Copy or Download
Copy the extracted text or download it as a text file.
When Do You Need OCR?
- • Scanned Paper Documents: Old contracts, receipts, or handwritten notes digitized by a scanner.
- • Photo-Based PDFs: Documents captured by smartphone cameras that contain text as image pixels.
- • Legacy Archives: Historical records stored as image-only PDF files without embedded text layers.
- • Accessibility Compliance: Making image-based documents screen-reader accessible for visually impaired users.
100% Browser-Based AI
Unlike cloud OCR services that upload your sensitive medical records and legal documents to remote servers, our tool runs the full Tesseract neural network as WebAssembly directly in your browser. Your files never leave your device.
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