Pull out all the selectable text from PDF pages for easy copying and editing.
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) reads scanned or image-based PDFs and extracts the text content, making it searchable and copyable. A scanned invoice or photograph of a document is unreadable as text — OCR converts it into real, selectable characters.
Businesses digitize paper invoices and contracts by scanning and running OCR. Researchers extract text from scanned academic papers for citation. Administrators convert scanned government forms into editable text. Anyone dealing with old paper documents that have been scanned to PDF benefits from OCR.
Our browser-based OCR uses Tesseract.js to recognize text in images embedded in your PDF. Supported languages include English plus many others. The extracted text is displayed and available for copy-paste — all processed locally, privately.
Your files never leave your browser. No account required, no server uploads — just fast, local processing. This is what it means to extract text from PDF without uploading.
Get every piece of selectable text from your PDF.
Clearly labels which text belongs to which page.
Text extraction happens entirely in your browser.
Upload your scanned PDF, choose the pages (all or a range), then run OCR to extract selectable text you can copy.
This tool extracts native/selectable text. If your PDF is a scanned image, the text cannot be extracted without full OCR software.
Yes, choose the "Custom Range" option and specify pages like "1-5, 8, 12".
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