PDF to Text (OCR)
Extract text from a scanned or image-based PDF up to 200MB by running OCR on each rendered page.
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Works best on scanned documents
How to use this tool
Upload a scanned or image-based PDF (one with no selectable text layer) and click Extract Text. Each page is rendered to an image, then run through on-device OCR, with a progress indicator showing which page is being processed — larger documents take longer since every page is recognized individually. Results are separated by page. This currently recognizes English text. Everything runs locally; nothing is uploaded.
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