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OCR PDF Online

Add a text layer to your scanned documents. Easily search terms, copy paragraphs, and index your papers with state-of-the-art Optical Character Recognition.

or drag and drop them to secure in-browser workspace

Secure offline-ready client processing

Why use PDFGo OCR PDF tool?

Premium optical character recognition (OCR) scans images of letters
Extracts text paragraphs into searchable PDFs or raw text sheets
Multi-lingual character recognition supported
Clean visual layer overlay for text selection

How to process OCR PDF in 4 simple steps

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Step 1

Select or drag your scanned PDF file into the upload pane.

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Step 2

Choose the primary language of the text inside the document.

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Step 3

Click 'Run OCR PDF' to perform character recognition.

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Step 4

Download the searchable, selectable PDF or export text to TXT.

Questions & Answers

Frequently asked questions concerning our online OCR PDF compiler

Q.What languages does the OCR tool support?

PDFGo OCR supports English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, and over 15 other international languages.

Q.Does this affect the original layout of the scanned paper?

No, our OCR engine embeds an invisible, fully aligned selectable text layer directly on top of the original images, keeping the exact layout perfect.