Which languages can OCR recognize?

English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Hindi and more. The language model downloads on first use from a public CDN, so the first run takes a little longer.

Will the OCR text be 100% accurate?

Accuracy depends on scan quality. Clean 300-dpi scans of printed text usually reach near-perfect results; handwriting, low resolution and heavy noise reduce quality.

How do I use the PDF OCR tool?

Open the PDF OCR tool, upload your file or paste your input, adjust the available options to your needs, then run the tool and download or copy the result. No account or installation is required.

PDF OCR

Optical character recognition runs on each page image and produces editable, searchable text. Choose recognition languages and download the result as a plain-text file.

Private processing: this pdf tool runs entirely in your browser — your files never leave your device.

Drop a scanned PDF here

OCR runs in your browser — the language model downloads on first use

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How to use PDF OCR

1Upload or provide your input
2Adjust the available options to your needs
3Click the main action button
4Wait a moment while the tool processes
5Download or copy your result

Frequently asked questions

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Split PDF

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Compress PDF

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Reduce PDF file size with three compression levels and see exactly how much you saved.

PDF to JPG

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Convert every page of a PDF into high-quality JPG images.

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