OCR searchable PDF

Run Tesseract on each page and rebuild with an invisible text layer (best-effort).

Runs in this tab. The file stays here.

Drop a file here, or click to browse.

Nothing you drop here goes anywhere but your own device.

About OCR searchable PDF

Tesseract OCR each page and rebuild with an invisible text layer.

Word-box alignment is best-effort. The page image is the visual source of truth; search/select may be imperfect.

Everything runs in this tab. The PDF never leaves your device for a server to process.

How to use OCR searchable PDF

1Drop a scanned PDF.
2Run OCR.
3Download.

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Why this one doesn't upload your file

There is no server to upload to. This page is a static file, and the work happens in your browser using the same graphics and WebAssembly code that renders every other site you visit. Your file is read from disk into memory, processed, and handed back as a download. Once the page has loaded you can disconnect from the network entirely and it keeps working. The longer explanation