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PDF OCR to Text

Recognize English text in scanned PDF pages locally after downloading an OCR model to your browser.

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Result

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How to use it

Choose a scanned PDF of up to ten pages and download the recognized text.

What to check

OCR may misread handwriting or poor scans. The first use downloads a model, and this produces text rather than a searchable PDF.

Review the result before using it in a published page, application, or agent configuration.

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Frequently asked questions

What does PDF OCR produce?

It recognizes English text from up to ten scanned pages and downloads text, not a new searchable PDF.

Why does OCR PDF take longer the first time?

A recognition model must download to the browser before local processing. Poor scans and handwriting can still cause errors.

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