OCR PDF — scanned PDF to text

Read the text inside scanned pages with in-browser OCR and download it as a .txt file.


                
                

            


            

                
 How it works

                
    
                    
  • Each page is rendered to a high-resolution image and read by Tesseract.js (the same OCR engine used by many desktop tools) — entirely in your browser.
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  • The page render scale controls accuracy vs speed: 2× is a good default, 3× is better for small print but noticeably slower.
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  • Language data (~10 MB) is downloaded once from the Tesseract CDN and then cached by the browser.
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  • OCR is never perfect: handwriting, unusual fonts, skew and low-resolution scans reduce accuracy. Check the result before relying on it.
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