Searchable PDF with OCR
Searchable PDF with OCR: Recognize English and Turkish scans locally and create a PDF with searchable text.
Searchable PDF with OCR
Your PDF stays in this tab. No document upload, account or paid service is required.
Runs local English/Turkish OCR. Maximum 60 selected pages, 40 MB input, 200 DPI and 180 million total pixels. Rebuilds selected pages as images with recognized text; original links, forms and accessibility structure are not retained. OCR can misread names, numbers and handwriting. Proofread before use. Encrypted, signed and XFA PDFs unsupported. First use downloads local recognition assets.
How to use
- Choose an unencrypted, unsigned PDF you are authorized to edit. Keep the original.
- Choose the recognition language, pages and resolution, then review the detected words.
- Recognition can be wrong. Compare names, numbers and low-confidence pages with the original.
- Preview before downloading; check again in your own PDF viewer before sharing.
How it works
- Choose an unencrypted, unsigned PDF you are authorized to edit. Keep the original.
- Choose the recognition language, pages and resolution, then review the detected words.
- Recognition can be wrong. Compare names, numbers and low-confidence pages with the original.
- Preview before downloading; check again in your own PDF viewer before sharing.
Example & practical use
Make a three-page scanned report searchable without uploading it.
Sample document
Synthetic example with no private data. You can also use the sample document button in the tool.Limits and help
Runs local English/Turkish OCR. Maximum 60 selected pages, 40 MB input, 200 DPI and 180 million total pixels. Rebuilds selected pages as images with recognized text; original links, forms and accessibility structure are not retained. OCR can misread names, numbers and handwriting. Proofread before use. Encrypted, signed and XFA PDFs unsupported. First use downloads local recognition assets.
Your files are yours.
Image and text processing happens in your browser. Your files are not uploaded to our servers.
Troubleshooting
Encrypted or damaged documents may not open; use an unencrypted copy only when you are authorized to access it. A scan without a text layer will not yield text with ordinary extraction. At a processing limit, reduce the file or page range and keep the original.