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OCR PDF

Make a scanned PDF searchable in every PDF reader — Acrobat, Foxit, Okular, browser viewers, Linux, Windows. Runs entirely in your browser — no signup, no upload, no watermark. First run downloads the OCR engine (~10MB); after that it's cached and works offline.

Mac users: if you only need search on macOS, Preview's built-in Live Text runs higher-quality recognition on-the-fly and doesn't modify the file. Use this tool when you need the text layer baked into the PDF for sharing across platforms.