Turn a scanned PDF into text you can copy or save, with text recognition that runs on your device.
Pages without a text layer are drawn and read with OCR on your device. The recognizer and its language data come from this site, so the scan never leaves your browser. Check the result against the PDF: OCR can make mistakes.
No uploads, accounts, ads, or tracking. The processing engine runs locally on your device.
Yes. Pages without a text layer can be read with OCR on your device. The first time downloads a few MB of recognition data; check the result against the PDF, since OCR can make mistakes.
English, Vietnamese, Chinese (simplified), Spanish, Arabic, French, Portuguese, Russian, Hindi, Japanese, Korean and German. Pick the document's language before recognizing.
No. The pages are read in your browser. The first time, it downloads the recognizer and the language data (a few MB) from this site; after that it also works offline.
A .txt file with the text in reading order: paragraphs as lines, tables as tab-separated rows, links with their address. The same text is also available as Markdown, with headings, lists and images.
No. Files stay in this browser tab and are never sent to a server, whichever tool you use.
Free, with no account, watermark or daily limit. The only limit is your device's memory for very large files.
Yes. Every tool runs in modern mobile browsers. Very large PDFs can exceed a phone's memory; a computer handles those better.
Yes, for the tools you have used once online: the site keeps their files in the browser, so they then run without a connection.
Your PDF. Your device. Your rules.
All processing runs in a local Web Worker. This site uses no analytics, accounts, cookies, or PDF storage. Your browser downloads application assets, but PDF data, filenames, and metadata are not sent to us.
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