OCR PDF

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) detects text in scanned document images and makes it editable, searchable, and selectable. This tool supports 14 languages and can produce either a searchable PDF (with the original image plus a hidden text layer) or extract the text content directly.

When to Use OCR

• You scanned a physical document and need to edit the text
• You have a PDF made from photos that you want to search
• You need to extract text from a document that was photographed
• You want to make scanned documents searchable in your archive

Tips for Best Results

• Higher DPI settings (200-300) improve accuracy for small text
• Select the correct language for your document's content
• Clean, well-lit scans produce the best OCR results
• Handwritten text may have limited recognition accuracy