Question 1

What is PDF OCR?

Accepted Answer

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) converts text inside a scanned PDF image into real, selectable, searchable text. This tool uses Tesseract, an open-source OCR engine, running entirely in your browser.

Question 2

Is my PDF uploaded anywhere?

Accepted Answer

No. Every page is rendered and recognized on your device. The only network traffic is downloading the language data file once, which is then cached.

Question 3

What languages are supported?

Accepted Answer

English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, Korean, and Arabic. Select your source language before starting.

Question 4

Can I download a searchable PDF?

Accepted Answer

Yes. You can download the extracted text as TXT, or generate a new PDF with an invisible text layer so the document becomes searchable while looking identical to the original.

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