About OCR PDF
OCR PDF does one job: it makes a scanned PDF searchable, free, without your file leaving your device.
Why it exists
Most free OCR sites ask you to upload your file. That is fine for a menu, and not fine for a contract, a medical letter or a chapter of your thesis. Browsers are now fast enough to do the reading themselves, so this site does it there.
What it is built on
- pdf.js, Mozilla’s PDF reader, draws each page.
- Tesseract.js, the browser version of the open-source Tesseract engine, reads the words.
- pdf-lib puts the pages and their hidden text back into one PDF.
Who makes it
OCR PDF is made by FixMyScan, which turns whole scanned books into clean, searchable PDFs for e-readers. This tool is the free, private part of that work, sized for documents up to 50 pages.
Contact
Found a page it reads badly, or a language you need? Email support@fixmyscan.com.