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Recognise the text in a scanned PDF. Get the text to copy and edit, or a searchable PDF that looks exactly like your scan. Works in 9 languages, right in your browser — your document is never uploaded.
✓ Free · ✓ No sign-up · ✓ Files stay on your device · ✓ Works on phone and computer
The first run downloads the text-recognition engine and language data (about 5–10 MB) from our site. Your browser keeps it, so later runs start faster.
Make archives of scanned letters, contracts and records searchable.
Reuse paragraphs from a scanned report without retyping them.
Give screen readers real text to read in scanned documents.
Get the text out first, then edit it in Word or Google Docs.
Yes. It is free to use, with no sign-up and no watermark added to your file.
No. The tool runs inside your own browser, so your file never leaves your device. Nothing is stored after you close the page.
OCR (optical character recognition) reads the letters in an image of a page and turns them into real text that you can search, copy and edit.
On clear printed scans it is usually very accurate. Blurry photos, unusual fonts, tables and handwriting cause more mistakes, so always check important text.
It looks exactly like your scan, but has an invisible text layer behind the image, so you can search with Ctrl+F and select or copy text.
Yes, as text. Choose the language and the “Text (.txt)” result.
Yes. For handwriting, damaged pages or documents that must be 100% correct, our team retypes and proofreads them. See scanned document editing.
Copy text from photos, scans and screenshots.
Make PDFs with photos or scans much smaller.
Turn PDF pages into JPG or PNG images.
Combine several PDFs into one file, in any order.
OCR is a great start, but our editors retype, format and proofread scans so the result is ready to use. Send your file for a free quote.