All processing happens locally in your browser using WebAssembly. Your files are never uploaded to any server and never used to train AI models.
After OCR, you can search, copy, and select text in previously image-only PDF pages.
Recognizes text in English, Hindi, and many other languages for accurate extraction.
OCR runs locally using browser-based technology — your scanned documents are never uploaded.
LovePDFs is a completely free alternative to Adobe Acrobat, Smallpdf, and ilovepdf. Unlike other online tools that upload your files to remote servers, LovePDFs processes everything in your browser using WebAssembly technology. Your files never leave your device — not even for a second.
This makes LovePDFs the right choice for sensitive documents — contracts, medical records, financial files, government forms, and anything you wouldn't want sent to a third-party server. It's also the only major PDF tool suite that is GDPR-friendly by design, since no personal data or file content ever leaves your browser.
Upload your scanned PDF to LovePDFs OCR tool, select the document language, and click Run OCR. Download the searchable PDF or copy the extracted text.
Run the OCR tool on your scanned document. It adds a text layer to the PDF so you can search, highlight, and copy text from previously image-only pages.
Upload your image-based PDF to the OCR tool and it will recognize all text characters in the scanned images and make them selectable.
Accuracy depends on scan quality. Clean, high-resolution scans of printed text achieve very high accuracy. Handwritten text may have lower accuracy.
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