OCR PDF
Turn scanned PDFs into searchable, copyable documents — or extract the text. Your file never leaves your device — it is processed in your browser.
Recognise text in a scanned PDF
Choose the document language, run OCR and download a searchable PDF or a .txt file.
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How it works
Choose your PDF
Select or drop a scanned PDF (or one with some scanned pages).
Pick the language
Tell the OCR engine which language the document is written in.
Download
Get a searchable PDF with an invisible text layer, or plain text.
About the OCR PDF tool
OCR (optical character recognition) reads the text in scanned documents and photos of pages. WizBrand’s OCR PDF tool renders every page of your PDF at 300 DPI, recognises the words with the open-source Tesseract engine and adds an invisible text layer exactly over the original words. The result looks identical to your scan, but you can now search it with Ctrl+F, select and copy text, and let search tools index it.
Pages that already contain real text are detected and skipped automatically (tick “OCR all pages” to force them). You can also download everything that was recognised as a plain .txt file. Latin-script languages and Cyrillic get a searchable PDF; for scripts such as Hindi, Bengali, Arabic, Chinese or Japanese the tool extracts the text as a .txt file, because the invisible PDF text layer cannot reproduce those scripts reliably.
Recognition runs in your browser with WebAssembly. The first run downloads the OCR engine and the language data (a few megabytes, cached for next time); after that, your pages are processed locally on your own device.
100% private: your file never leaves your device — it is processed in your browser. No upload, no storage, no account.
What you get
Searchable PDF
An invisible text layer over the original page — the look is unchanged.
20+ languages
English, Hindi, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Bengali and more.
Text export
Download all recognised text as a .txt file.
Never uploaded
OCR runs on your device — your scans stay private.