OCR a Scanned PDF — Make It Searchable

A scanned PDF is just a stack of images. You can't search it, you can't copy text out of it, and screen readers can't help blind users navigate it. OCR — optical character recognition — fixes all that by reading the pixels and turning them back into actual text.

Pick the language of the document for best accuracy — English vs. Turkish vs. German all use different optimization. The tool handles multi-page PDFs and stacks the recognized text in the same order. You get either a searchable PDF (looks the same, but with an invisible text layer underneath the image) or a plain .txt file.

Quality of the input matters. A clean 300 DPI scan recognizes near-perfectly. A blurry phone photo of a printout will have errors. The tool tells you the confidence score so you know how much to trust the output.