🔍 PDF OCR

Extract text from scanned PDFs and images using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Supports multiple languages. No upload — runs 100% in your browser.

ℹ️ How it works: Tesseract OCR (Google's open-source OCR engine) runs in your browser to read text from scanned pages. On first use it downloads the language data file (~10 MB) — this is normal and only happens once. Works on scanned PDFs and image files (JPG, PNG, TIFF).

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Drop PDF or image here

PDF, JPG, PNG, TIFF — up to 50 MB

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Language

Extracted Text

🔒 100% Free · No Login · File Never Leaves Your Browser · Powered by Tesseract.js

📖 How to Use

Upload File

Drop a scanned PDF or image file (JPG, PNG, TIFF)

Choose Language

Select the language of the text in your document

Copy or Download

Copy the extracted text or download as a .txt file

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Why does it download data on first use?+

Tesseract needs language training data to recognize text. The English data is about 10 MB and is cached in your browser — subsequent uses are instant without downloading again.

Does it work on normal PDFs with text?+

For PDFs with real selectable text, use PDF to Word instead — it's faster and more accurate. OCR is for scanned or image-only PDFs where the text is a picture.

Are my files sent to a server?+

No. Tesseract.js runs fully in your browser using WebAssembly. Your file never leaves your device.