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PDF OCR
Make scanned PDFs searchable with on-device OCR. No page limits.
Drop a scanned PDF here or click to select
How it works
- Drop a scanned PDF — one where you cannot select or search the text.
- Pick the document language (English, Turkish, or both, for now).
- Run OCR: each page is recognized on your device with per-page progress, and you can cancel at any time.
- Download the searchable PDF — pages look identical, but the text underneath is now selectable and findable.
What people use it for
- Making scanned contracts and invoices searchable with Ctrl+F.
- Preparing scans for archive systems that index text content.
- Recovering copy-paste access to a document that only exists on paper.
Good to know
- Your original pages are copied 1:1 — the OCR result is added as an invisible text layer, so image quality does not change.
- Language packs currently cover English and Turkish; other languages will read poorly until their packs are added.
- The invisible layer folds special characters to a Latin approximation (ı→i and similar), so searches match the folded form; words recognized with low confidence are skipped rather than guessed.
Frequently asked questions
Why is on-device OCR a big deal?
OCR is where most tools paywall or upload: your scans — often the most sensitive documents you have — get processed on someone's server. Here Tesseract runs as WebAssembly in your browser, so the document never leaves your machine, with no page limits.
Will the PDF look different afterwards?
No. The visible pages are byte-identical copies of the originals; only an invisible text layer is added above them.
How accurate is it?
Clean 300-dpi scans of printed text recognize very well; handwriting, low-resolution photos, and heavy skew reduce accuracy — the tool skips words it is not reasonably confident about instead of inserting noise.