OCR PDF — Recognize Text & Create Searchable PDF
Run real Optical Character Recognition (Tesseract.js) on scanned PDF pages to extract text and generate a searchable PDF.
1. Select Document Input
Upload your own file(s) or load a real sample document to test OCR PDF immediately.
How to Use OCR PDF
- 01.Upload a scanned or image-based PDF.
- 02.Select document language (English, Spanish, French, German, etc.) and page range.
- 03.Run OCR to view recognized text with confidence scores and download the searchable PDF.
Document Processing & Privacy Notes
Renders each PDF page to high-contrast bitmap, runs Tesseract OCR with word bounding boxes, and embeds a searchable text layer plus full plain-text transcript.
OCR processing runs in your browser via WebAssembly.
Frequently Asked Questions — OCR PDF
How accurate is the OCR engine?
Tesseract neural LSTM models achieve high accuracy on clean 150–300 DPI scans and report exact word confidence percentages.
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