01 / Fast steps
- Drop or pick your scanned PDF files.
- Every page is rendered and recognized automatically.
- Copy the recognized text or download it as a .txt file.
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02 / Best for
- Turn scanned contracts, letters and books into editable text.
- Recover text from PDFs produced by office scanners.
- Make old paper archives quotable and searchable.
03 / Why here
- No account walls: most OCR sites require registration for multi-page documents or cap you at a few pages per hour. Here there is no account to create and no monthly page quota.
- Recognition runs in your browser, so scanned documents never leave your device: the opposite of uploading a contract to an OCR server.
04 / Keep in mind
- Recognition is tuned for English and Latin-script documents; handwriting is not recognized.
- Processing is limited to the first 20 pages per file, and accuracy depends on scan quality.
Tool connections
Related tools
01PDF to TextExtract all text from PDF files, with automatic OCR fallback for scanned documents, right in your browser.02Image to Text (OCR)Extract text from images and screenshots with OCR that runs in your browser — free, no upload, no page limits.03Data ExtractorExtract data from PDF and images: search a label like total, date or IBAN and get the actual value next to it.04Word CounterCount words, characters, sentences and paragraphs, plus estimated reading time.
faq
Questions, answered.
01How is this different from PDF to Text?
PDF to Text reads the text layer of digital PDFs and only falls back to OCR when needed. This page always runs OCR, which is what you want for scans and photographed documents.
02Are my scans uploaded for processing?
No. The OCR engine runs as WebAssembly in your browser, so sensitive scanned documents never leave your device.
03Is OCR PDF free to use?
Yes, OCR PDF is completely free, with no sign-up, no page limits and no premium tier. It runs entirely in your browser, so your data never leaves your device.