Guide

How to make a scanned PDF searchable (free OCR in the browser)

Turn scanned PDFs into searchable, selectable text with OCR that runs on your device — English, Spanish, French, German and Russian.

1. Open the OCR tool and drop the scanned PDF.
2. Choose the document languages.
3. Click Make searchable. Recognition runs on your device; the first run downloads the language models from our site.
4. Download the PDF: it looks the same, but you can now search and copy the text.

Tips

• Good scans (300 dpi, straight pages) give the best results.
• Pages that already have text are skipped automatically.