🔒 Your files never leave your device

OCR PDF — Extract Text

Read the text from a scanned PDF and copy or download it.

FreeNo watermarkOffline

Why is it safe? Many sites upload your file to their servers. Not here: everything happens in your own browser. Your file is never sent to the internet and stored nowhere — because it is never received. It even works offline.

How it works (3 steps)

Upload your scanned PDF.
OCR recognizes the text (the language model downloads on first use).
Copy the text or download it as a file.

Tips

Works on scanned documents, invoices and IDs.
Clearer scans give better accuracy.
Detected info like IDs and amounts is surfaced as cards.

FAQ

What is OCR?

Optical Character Recognition — it turns text in an image into selectable text.

Does it stay on my device?

Yes, OCR runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

Are my files uploaded anywhere?

No. Everything runs in your browser; your files never leave your device.

Is it free?

Yes, completely free and unlimited. No watermark is added to the output.

Does it work on a phone?

Yes, it works in Android and iPhone browsers, and can be added to the home screen as an app.

OCR PDF — Extract Text →

Other tools

Image to Text PDF to Word PDF to Excel Scan Document to PDF Redact PDF