OCR PDF

Adds a selectable, searchable text layer over a scanned PDF's pages. The recognition engine runs on your device — nothing is uploaded.

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Processed on your device

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Once ocr pdf is done, you can send the result straight into another tool — merge, sign, compress, and more — without downloading and re-uploading.

The first run downloads a small offline text-recognition engine (a few MB, once) before reading the file. Every page after that runs the same way every other tool here does — on your device only.

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