OCR — Searchable PDF
Read the text in scans; make image-only PDFs searchable.
Processed on your device
About OCR — Searchable PDF
A scanned PDF looks like a document but behaves like a stack of photos: you can't select a sentence, search for a name, or copy a paragraph. OCR (optical character recognition) fixes that by actually reading the pixels. This tool takes a scan — a PDF or a photo — and either extracts everything it can read into plain text, or produces a searchable PDF: the page still looks exactly like your scan, but an invisible text layer underneath makes it selectable, searchable and indexable. Recognition runs in your browser; the document is never uploaded.
How to use OCR — Searchable PDF
1
Add a scan
An image-only PDF or a photo/screenshot of a document. Sharp, well-lit scans read best.
2
Pick output & language
Searchable PDF keeps the look and adds a hidden text layer; plain text gives you just the words.
3
Run OCR
The engine downloads once (~15 MB), then everything is recognized locally on your device.