PDF OCR Experimental
Extract text from scanned PDFs using optical character recognition (OCR) powered by Tesseract.js. All processing happens in your browser.
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PDF OCR Text Extraction
Upload a scanned PDF and extract text
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OCR Settings
Configure language and output format
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OCR may take several minutes for multi-page documents
OCR Complete!
Text has been extracted from your PDF.
Your PDF never leaves your device. OCR is performed entirely in your browser.
Known Limitations
- Processing time can be long for large documents
- OCR accuracy depends heavily on document quality
- Handwritten text recognition is limited
- Only English and a limited set of languages available
- Maximum file size: 30 MB due to memory constraints
- This is an experimental feature using Tesseract.js
How OCR Works
1
Upload PDF
Select a scanned or image-based PDF
2
OCR Processing
Each page is analyzed for text recognition
3
Download Text
Get the extracted text for editing
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