OCR for Scanned PDFs

Extract searchable text from scanned documents and images. Powered by Tesseract engine, entirely in your browser.

Drag & Drop your scanned PDF or Image

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How to OCR a Scanned PDF

  1. Upload your scanned PDF document or an image file (JPG/PNG).
  2. The tool will prepare the visual data and initiate the local OCR engine.
  3. Watch the progress bar as it reads the text page by page.
  4. Once finished, review the extracted text and download or copy it to your clipboard.

Why Use PDFWhiz's PDF OCR Tool?

Standard text extractors fail when a PDF is made up of scanned pages. Because the document is essentially a collection of pictures rather than encoded characters, you need Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to bridge the gap. Our PDF OCR tool solves this by reading the text from photos of documents, digitizing scanned files, and making your PDFs searchable.

Many online OCR tools limit the number of pages you can process or require you to upload your sensitive documents to their servers. PDFWhiz handles everything differently. By leveraging WebAssembly and the powerful Tesseract engine, all the visual analysis and text extraction happen locally on your device. This guarantees robust privacy, making it perfectly suited for legal documents, medical records, and confidential business scans.

Frequently Asked Questions

The accuracy depends on scan quality, but it typically hits 90%+ for clear, machine-printed text.

By default, the tool extracts English text. Tesseract.js supports over 100 languages.

Since it runs locally in your browser, it depends on your device speed and the number of pages. It typically takes 10-30 seconds per page.

Yes, you can upload JPG or PNG files directly alongside standard PDF documents.

Yes, the OCR processing is 100% local. Your files are never sent to external servers.

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