PDF OCR Text Extractor
Extract embedded text from PDFs locally and run optional browser OCR on rendered pages for scanned documents.
Privacy: PDF parsing and page rendering happen in this browser. Optional OCR loads Tesseract.js from a CDN and processes rendered page images locally. Limits: one PDF, 50 MB, 25 pages.
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Embedded text and OCR
Many digital PDFs already contain selectable text. Scanned PDFs are images, so OCR is needed. This tool tries the direct text layer when selected and can render pages to images for browser OCR.
Accuracy note
OCR quality depends on scan resolution, rotation, contrast, handwriting and language. Review important output before using it in contracts, forms or publishing.