PDF OCR

Extract text from a scanned or image-only PDF — the kind of PDF where you can't select or copy the text.

How this works

Each page of your PDF is converted to an image and read using OCR (optical character recognition) on our server. This works on scanned documents and photos of text — for a PDF where the text is already selectable, use the faster PDF to Word tool instead. Your file is deleted from the server immediately after processing.

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