OCR PDF

Extract and download the text content from any PDF with a text layer.

Click to upload or drag and drop

Supports PDF files with text layers

How OCR PDF Works

This tool extracts the text layer from your PDF, making it searchable and copyable. It works on PDFs that already contain embedded text (such as digitally created PDFs).

For scanned documents: Scanned PDFs are image-based and require full optical character recognition (OCR). This tool extracts existing text — for scanned images, the extracted text may be empty or limited.

Output: The extracted text is downloaded as a .txt file, one section per PDF page.

Privacy: All processing happens locally in your browser.