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OCR PDF

Recognise text in scanned pages and download a searchable PDF. Recognition runs in your browser with an engine and English language data served by this site.

or drop it here, or paste.

Runs in your browser. Your files are not uploaded.

How to use OCR PDF

  1. Choose a scanned PDF or drop it on the page.

  2. Select Recognise & download. The first run loads the text recognition engine.

  3. Wait while each page is recognised; the page shows its progress.

  4. Save the searchable PDF, which ends in -searchable.pdf. You can also copy the text or download it as a .txt file.

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