OCR PDF
Perform client-side optical character recognition (OCR) on scanned PDFs using Tesseract.js. Extract text, search content, and download as plain text (.txt) without sending documents to cloud APIs.
Upload PDF document to extract text
100% in-browser OCR & vector text extraction. Supports English & Hindi.
How to Use OCR PDF
Follow these easy steps to process your file right in your browser.
Upload scanned PDF
Select the scanned PDF document you want to extract text from.
Select OCR language
Choose your document language (English, Spanish, French, German, etc.).
Run optical character recognition
Click "Start OCR". The WebAssembly engine analyzes character shapes on each page.
Copy or download extracted text
Review the extracted text live, copy it to your clipboard, or save as a .txt file.
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