OCR PDF: make scanned PDFs searchable
Turn scanned PDFs into searchable, selectable text.
On-device or cloudHow to OCR PDF
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Open a scanned PDF.
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Select the document's language.
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Click Make searchable. You can then search, select and copy the text in any PDF reader.
Frequently asked questions
Will my pages look different?
No. An invisible text layer is added over the original page images, so they look exactly as before.
Is there a page limit?
On-device OCR handles up to 30 pages per file. Longer documents are processed on our servers automatically and deleted within an hour.