OCR PDF — Turn Scanned Pages Into Searchable Text

Scanned PDFs look like documents but behave like pictures — you can't search them, copy text from them, or paste their contents into another app. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) fixes that by reading the pixels of each page and turning the visible text back into real, machine-readable characters. Our OCR PDF tool does exactly that, end to end, in your browser and our cloud.

When you upload a PDF, every page is rasterized to a high-resolution image right on your device, then sent to our AI OCR engine powered by Google Gemini. The engine reads each page, recognizes printed text, handwriting, receipts, signs, and even mixed-language content, and returns clean text per page. We then rebuild the document as a fresh, selectable text PDF and also hand you a plain .txt download for pasting into Word, Excel, or your code editor.

This is the tool you want for scanned contracts you need to search, photographed receipts you want to expense, archived books you want to quote from, and screenshots of slides you want to repurpose. Because OCR runs on a top-tier vision model rather than a 1990s pattern matcher, results are dramatically better than legacy free OCR tools — especially on low-quality scans, skewed pages, and small fonts.

Your file is processed in memory and discarded immediately after the OCR run finishes. Nothing is stored, nothing is indexed, and the AI provider sees only the page images for the duration of the request.