OCR PDF
Convert scanned PDF into searchable and selectable documents.
No sign-up required · Files are deleted after 1 hour
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About OCR PDF
Make scanned PDFs searchable and selectable with OCR (optical character recognition). Turn image-based scans into text you can copy, search, and convert to Word. Upload your scanned PDF, run OCR, and download a new PDF with selectable text.
OCR runs on our servers; files are deleted after 1 hour. No sign-up. After OCR, you can use PDF to Word or PDF to Excel for further editing. For more tools, see the home page.
What you can do
- Extract text from scanned PDFs
- Searchable and selectable output
- Then convert to Word or Excel
- Free and secure
For PDF to Word or PDF to Excel, visit our home page.
Guides for this tool
- How to OCR a scanned PDF and make it searchable
Why scanned PDFs cannot be searched, how OCR adds a hidden text layer, what accuracy to expect, and how to scan documents so OCR works well.
- How to convert PDF to Word (and what to expect from the result)
Which PDFs convert cleanly to editable Word documents, why scanned files need OCR first, and how to clean up the usual layout problems afterwards.