Make scanned PDFs searchable with text recognition
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Max file size: 20MB
pdfty's OCR tool turns image-based PDFs (scans, photos of documents) into searchable, copyable text. We use Tesseract 5 with optimized models for English, Russian, French, German, and Spanish — including Cyrillic and accented characters.
After OCR your PDF looks the same visually but you can now copy text, search, and convert to Word with the original layout preserved. Useful for scanned contracts, archived documents, photographed whiteboards, or fax outputs.
Up to 50 pages and 20 MB on free. Pro lifts limits. Pages with mixed scripts work — OCR detects script per region. We never train models on your data.
Drop a scanned or image-only PDF. Up to 20 MB on free.
Choose one or more from English, Russian, French, German, Spanish.
Tesseract processes each page. Takes 1-3 seconds per page typically.
Same look, with a hidden text layer. Now you can copy, search, convert.
Files deleted within 1 hour.