justyourpdfOCR PDF
Turn scans into PDFs you can search and copy.
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OCR PDF
Make scanned PDFs searchable
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How to oCR PDF
Three steps, no software to install.
- 1
Add your PDF
Drop, choose or paste your PDF.
- 2
Choose options
Choose the document's language.
- 3
Download
Save the result. No watermark, no sign-up.
OCR PDF: what to know
Optical character recognition reads text from scanned PDF pages and adds a searchable text layer. Choose the document's language so the recognizer can interpret its words more accurately.
Recognition runs in your browser using Tesseract.js. Its engine and language files are downloaded from jsDelivr when needed; document contents are not sent there. Blurry scans, handwriting, unusual fonts and complex tables can produce errors, so verify important names and numbers.
Popular uses
- Search a scanned archive
- Copy text from printed pages
- Prepare scans for PDF to Text
Tips for the best result
- Correct page orientation before recognition.
- Use a clear source scan and check recognized text before relying on it.