PDF OCR
For scanned PDFs with no real text layer — reads each page as an image and recognizes the text.
This is slower than PDF to Text since every page is processed as an image. If your PDF already has selectable text, use PDF to Text instead — it's instant.
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Some PDFs are just scanned images with no real text underneath, so normal copy-paste doesn't work. This runs OCR on each page to make a scanned PDF's content readable and extractable.
How it works
- Add your scanned PDFBest for PDFs with no real text layer — just scanned images of pages.
- Run OCREach page is rendered as an image, then read by an OCR engine, entirely in your browser.
- Download the textA .txt file with everything the OCR engine could recognize.
FAQ
How is this different from PDF to Text?
PDF to Text reads real, selectable text instantly. PDF OCR is for scanned PDFs with no real text — it reads each page as an image, which takes longer.
Why is there a 15-page limit?
OCR is computationally heavy since it runs entirely in your browser. Longer documents are best split first.