OCR PDF
Runs the recognition engine inside your browser. The first run downloads a language model, so give it a moment.
Runs in your browser — nothing uploadednew
How to use OCR PDF
- Choose the scanned PDF whose text you need.
- Pick the language of the document — accuracy drops sharply with the wrong one.
- Press Run OCR and wait. The first run downloads the language model once.
Questions
- Why is the first run slow?
- A language model of roughly 10 MB is downloaded the first time you use a language. After that it is cached and later runs start immediately.
- How accurate is it?
- Good on clean, straight, well-lit scans. Numbers, names and anything handwritten are where it errs — always check those before relying on the output.
- Does my document leave my device?
- No. The recognition engine runs inside your browser. Only the language model is fetched, and that is public data unrelated to your file.
Auf Deutsch: PDF-Texterkennung (OCR) · En français : Reconnaissance de texte (OCR) sur un PDF
Guides that use this
How to translate a PDF between Bengali and EnglishBengali to English or back, with the document handed back in its own layout — and what to do about a file whose text is a legacy font rather than Unicode.How to scan a document with your phone, without an appTurn a phone camera into a usable document scanner: lighting, angle, resolution, and how to end up with a searchable PDF rather than a folder of photos.
Also called
- make a scan searchable
- text recognition
- read text from a scan
- searchable PDF
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