Will it make my PDF searchable?

It gives you the text as a file you can copy or save. It does not write an invisible text layer back into the PDF.

Why did a normal PDF come out badly?

If the PDF already contains real text, converting it to TXT or Word is faster and exact; OCR is for scans.

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Free PDF OCR: text from a scanned PDF

Read the text in a scanned PDF and copy it, in your browser. English, Hindi and more. Free, nothing uploaded.

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or browse your device — one file or many; images, documents, spreadsheets, audio, video, archives, 3D models

A scanned PDF is a picture of a page. This reads the words off it, page by page, on your device. Nothing is uploaded: the work happens inside your browser, on your own device.

How to use it

Drop the scanned PDF Up to 50 pages at a time.
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Read, copy or download Page breaks are marked in the text.

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Will it make my PDF searchable?: It gives you the text as a file you can copy or save. It does not write an invisible text layer back into the PDF.
Why did a normal PDF come out badly?: If the PDF already contains real text, converting it to TXT or Word is faster and exact; OCR is for scans.
Is anything uploaded?: No.

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