OCR PDF
Run OCR on rendered PDF pages in the browser and download extracted text. Supports English, Spanish, French, German, and Portuguese.
Enable JavaScript for the interactive PDFde app. This fallback keeps the core guidance, privacy notes, and related links readable without JavaScript.
OCR PDF details
OCR PDF renders pages in the browser and runs Tesseract locally. It is useful for private text recovery from scans.
File handling
- Input: One scanned PDF or image-based PDF.
- Output: A TXT file with OCR text.
- Privacy: Processing runs in your browser for this live tool. PDFde does not upload the selected document contents to its servers.
Best for
- Scanned pages with no selectable text
- English, Spanish, French, German, or Portuguese OCR
- Reviewing extracted text before copying it elsewhere
Know before using
- OCR quality depends on scan clarity, rotation, contrast, and font
- The first run may download a language model
- Output is text, not a searchable PDF layer
Related PDF tools