PDF OCR / Searchable PDF
Make scanned PDFs searchable with OCR.
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One PDF · 40 MB max · processed securely and deleted automatically.
About PDF OCR / Searchable PDF
PDF OCR makes scanned or image-only PDFs searchable by adding an invisible text layer on top of your pages using Tesseract optical character recognition — so you can select, copy and search the text while the document looks exactly the same. Pages, images, dimensions and order are preserved; we only add the text layer. Files are uploaded securely, processed on our servers and deleted automatically shortly afterwards.
How to use
- 1Upload your scanned PDF.
- 2Choose the document's language (English, Hindi and 9 more Indian languages, with an option to also recognise English).
- 3Click Make searchable, then download your searchable PDF once it's ready.
Features
- Adds a selectable, searchable text layer without changing how the PDF looks.
- Preserves pages, images, page size and order; auto-rotates sideways scans.
- Multilingual OCR: English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Urdu.
- Skips PDFs that are already searchable, with an optional Force OCR mode.
- Processed securely on our servers and deleted automatically.
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