OCR PDF

Turn a scanned PDF into a searchable one. The pages look the same, but you can select, copy and search the text.

    This tool needs our server. Your file is sent over an encrypted connection, converted, and deleted as soon as the result has been sent back to you. Limit: 25 MB.

    How it works

    Each page is read by Tesseract, an open-source text recognition engine, and an invisible text layer is placed over the picture of the page.

    Clear, straight scans at a normal size work best. Handwriting, very small print and poor photos give errors. The limit is 30 pages per file.

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