Make PDF Searchable
Scanned PDF → selectable, searchable PDF via OCR layer.
How this differs from Extract Text
This tool keeps your PDF looking identical but adds an invisible text layer so you can select, copy, and search the text directly inside the PDF. Use Extract Text if you just want the raw .txt output.
OCR Language
Tesseract OCR runs in your browser. Language data (~10MB) downloads on first use, then cached.
Drop scanned PDFs here
PDF only — output is a new PDF with selectable text
How it works
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Drop a scanned PDF
Works on PDFs made from scanned documents, photos, or images-to-PDF output.
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OCR per page
Tesseract reads every page and captures each word's position. Runs in your browser.
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Get a new PDF
Same visual page, with an invisible text layer. Select, copy, and Cmd/Ctrl+F works.