OCR PDF (Make Searchable)

Reads the words in a scanned or photographed PDF and turns it into one you can select, search and copy from. The page looks exactly the same — the text sits on top in an invisible layer. It all runs in your browser, so nothing is uploaded.

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Drag PDF files here, or click to upload

Several at a time · makes scanned PDFs searchable

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