PDF to OCR Converter
Unlock the text hidden within your scanned documents or image-based PDF files! Our free online PDF OCR tool uses advanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to 'read' the text in your images and convert it into actual, selectable text data.
Many PDFs, especially those created from scanners or containing screenshots, are just images of text. You can't search them, copy text from them, or have them read by screen readers. Our tool solves this:
Upload Your PDF: Select the image-based or scanned PDF file.
Process with OCR: Our engine analyzes the images, recognizes the characters, and extracts the text.
Get Your Text: Download the extracted text (usually as a plain .txt file) or optionally receive a new, searchable PDF where the recognized text layer is added behind the original image, allowing you to search and copy directly within the PDF viewer.
This is perfect for digitizing paper documents, making scanned archives searchable, extracting data without retyping, and improving accessibility.