About OCR PDF
OCR PDF recognizes text inside scanned or image-only PDF pages and returns editable text for review and download.
Browser OCR toolkit
Extract selectable text from scanned PDF files with local OCR, confidence scoring, and batch page handling.
Convert scanned PDFs into editable text in your browser.
Use OCR PDF for invoices, contracts, statements, books, and archive scans.
Works best with clean 200-300 DPI scans and high contrast text.
OCR PDF recognizes text inside scanned or image-only PDF pages and returns editable text for review and download.
Selected files are processed in your browser and do not need to be uploaded to Nexynto Tools servers.
Scanned and image-only PDFs need OCR when their visible text cannot be selected or searched.
This page focuses on extracting text. Use Make PDF Searchable for a PDF containing an OCR text layer.
Yes. Choose the language that best matches the document before recognition.
Blur, skew, handwriting, low contrast and unusual fonts can reduce recognition quality.
Selected files are processed in your browser and do not need to be uploaded to Nexynto Tools servers.
Upload PDF files, review recognized pages, and download editable plain text. For a PDF result, use Make PDF Searchable.
Use OCR Scanner for scanned-document recognition or cleanup, with results available for review.
Use Make PDF Searchable for scanned-document recognition or cleanup, with results available for review.
Use Deskew PDF for scanned-document recognition or cleanup, with results available for review.
Use Image To Searchable PDF for scanned-document recognition or cleanup, with results available for review.
Practical guides
OCR interprets page pixels as characters while preserving page order for review.
Resolution, skew, shadows and compressed text directly affect recognition.