Privacy
Your PDF is opened, read and saved by your own browser. It is never uploaded, so we never see it, store it or keep a copy.
Updated 12 November 2026
What happens to your file
When you choose a PDF, your browser reads it from your disk into the open tab. Each page is drawn and read there, and the searchable PDF is built there too. When you close the tab, it is gone. There is no account and no upload step, so there is nothing for us to delete.
You can check this yourself: open your browser’s developer tools, go to the Network tab, and run a file. You will see the page and its tools load, and no request carrying your PDF.
What the page does load
- The page itself, from our server.
- The PDF and OCR tools (pdf.js, Tesseract.js and pdf-lib) and the language model you pick, from the public file servers cdnjs and jsDelivr.
- Fonts, from Google Fonts.
Like any website, these servers see your IP address and what was requested. None of them receive your PDF.
What we keep
No accounts, no cookies of our own, no analytics on this site. Your browser stores the language model you used, so the next run starts faster; clearing site data removes it.
FixMyScan
Some links lead to FixMyScan, which makes this site. FixMyScan works differently: it uploads your file to clean and read whole books on its servers, and deletes it 24 hours after the book is ready. Its own privacy and deletion page explains how.
Questions
Email support@fixmyscan.com.