PDF & file converters
OCR PDF & Image to Text
Turn scanned PDFs and photos of documents into editable, searchable text with free OCR (English). Runs privately in your browser.
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How to use the OCR PDF & Image to Text
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Choose a scanned PDF or image.
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Wait while each page is read.
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Copy the text or download it.
About this tool
Optical character recognition reads text from scans and photos. This tool uses the open-source Tesseract engine in your browser to read English text from images and scanned PDFs, then lets you copy it, download it as text or save a Word document.
Frequently asked questions
How accurate is OCR?
Clear, straight, high-resolution scans of printed text work well. Handwriting, low light, unusual fonts and skewed photos reduce accuracy, so always proofread.
Which languages are supported?
English. The first run downloads the language data once (about 3 MB) from our own server.