OCR & searchable PDF tools

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• Recover editable text from a supported scan or photo.
• Create a searchable PDF and check the recognized text.

Read the selected tool’s instructions, supported formats and limits before starting. Review generated results before you use them.

4 tools that work now

• Image to textRecognize English, Spanish, French, German or Portuguese text in a JPG, PNG or WebP image. Edit and review the OCR result before downloading.
• Scanned PDF to textRecognize English, Spanish, French, German or Portuguese text on selected PDF pages. OCR can miss words and does not reconstruct tables or layout.
• Make PDF searchableCreate a PDF with page images and a recognized text layer. Selected pages are rasterized; original interactive features are not retained.
• Review OCR wordsRecognize clear printed text in five languages, inspect confidence hints and edit words before downloading TXT.