Free · local OCR

Free scanned PDF OCR

Turn a scanned PDF into editable text and convert it to EPUB, PDF, DOCX, HTML or TXT. Tesseract runs inside your browser: no account, no page limit, and no page is uploaded.

No account · unlimited pages

Reading a clean scan? This free version is usually enough. For faint print, unusual layouts or mixed scripts, use the AI PDF reader.

Your files

Drop a scanned PDF

or choose a PDF from your device. Up to 20 files. Scanned pages are read locally in your browser — nothing is uploaded.

PDF · scanned

Maximum 200 MB per file · scanned PDFs only · no account needed

Output formatChoose one target for all files

Book details & layout

Title (optional) Author (optional) PDF page size Body text size

Title and author overrides apply to every file in this batch. Leave them blank to keep each book's own metadata.

Free local OCR

Tesseract runs in this browser. The first run loads language data; after that it is cached. No account and no page limit.

Reading mode

No scanned pages detected. Text will be read from the file's own text layer — no OCR needed.

Add a file to begin

This OCR runs entirely in your browser. The language data is downloaded once from a public CDN. Your PDF, page images and recognized text are never uploaded. Privacy
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Free scanned PDF OCR

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Converted files