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Extract text from a scanned PDF with local OCR

Each page is rendered on your device and analyzed with Tesseract. Accuracy depends on resolution, language, orientation, and scan quality.

Free support tool — review the result

PriviTools provides this tool at no cost to make everyday tasks easier. Results are generated automatically and may contain errors, omissions or formatting changes. Compare them with the original before signing, filing, sharing or relying on them for an important decision. This tool does not replace professional review or official validation.

LOCAL PROCESSING

Everything happens in your browser

The file and text never leave your device.

Select or drag a file to continue.

Local OCR for scanned documents

Choose a language and process the PDF page by page. The first use may download the OCR engine and language resources; document processing stays in the browser.

Review names, numbers, and tables

OCR can confuse similar characters and may not reconstruct tables or columns. Compare the text with the PDF before reusing important information.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Does it work on PDFs that already contain text?

Yes, but the Extract PDF Text tool is faster and usually preserves reading order better for those files.

Why can the first run take longer?

The browser must load the OCR engine and the selected language resources before recognizing pages.

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