Recognize text in a scanned PDF

Read scanned PDFs with OCR in English, Malayalam, Hindi or Tamil. Extract text on your device or add a searchable text layer to an English scan.

Start with your PDF

Drag a file here or choose from your device.

PDF files · up to 100 MB per file

How to recognize words in a scan

Open the scan, choose its printed language and select the current page or all pages. The browser downloads the language model and processes the pages on your device.
Choose Extract text (TXT) for any supported language. For an English scan, you can also choose Searchable PDF to make the words searchable on the page.
Select Recognize text. Check names, numbers and faint print against the scan before using the result.

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