Extract text from scanned PDF files
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Extract text from selected PDF pages with browser-based OCR. Choose English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese or Korean, then enter page numbers or ranges; leave the field empty to process all pages. Recognition depends on scan quality, language and layout. Review the extracted text for errors. This tool returns text rather than a searchable PDF, and files are limited to 100 MB.
Select a scanned or image-based PDF that contains text you want to extract.
Our OCR engine analyzes each page and recognizes text from images.
Copy or download the recognized text and check it for errors.
OCR works on scanned documents, photographed pages, image-based PDFs, and any PDF where text appears as images rather than selectable text.
Results vary with scan quality, language, text size and page layout. OCR can make mistakes, so review and correct the extracted text before using it.
The selector lists English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese and Korean. Select the document language before running OCR; automatic language detection is not provided.
Time depends on the number and complexity of pages and your browser performance.
Yes. Enter page numbers or ranges, such as 1-5, 8. Leave the field empty to select all pages.