OCR PDF
Extract text from scanned PDFs
About this tool
Convert scanned PDFs (images of text) into searchable text. Uses tesseract.js running entirely in your browser. Heads-up: tesseract loads about 20MB of language models on first use and can take 1-2 minutes per page. Works best on clean, high-contrast scans. Available languages: English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, French, Spanish, German.
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