Extract selectable text from scanned PDF files with local OCR, confidence scoring, and batch page handling.
Batch OCR runs locally with controlled page-by-page processing.
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 PDFStack 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 PDFStack servers.
Use OCR Scanner for scanned-document recognition or cleanup, with results available for review.
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