PWPrivatePDFConvertPro
Pro · Private · No upload

OCR a scanned PDF

Turn image-based PDFs into real, searchable text. Files processed in your browser. Nothing uploaded.

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Drop a scanned PDF to OCR

or tap to choose a file from your device. Max 100 MB · PDF only

Output: plain .txt · files never leave your browser

How it works

Three steps. The OCR engine is downloaded once, then cached.

  1. 1. Drop your scanned PDF

    We render every page to a canvas locally.

  2. 2. Click Run OCR

    Tesseract.js reads each page, in your browser.

  3. 3. Download .txt

    Plain extracted text, one page at a time.

Frequently asked questions

OCR (optical character recognition) reads pixels in scanned documents and converts them into real Unicode text. You need it whenever a PDF was made by scanning paper or photographing a page — those files look like text but are actually images, so you can't search, copy, or convert them with normal tools until OCR has run.

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