Optical Character Recognition. It reads text from images of text (scans, photos) and turns them into selectable, searchable text in the PDF.

100+ languages via Tesseract — English, Hindi, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and many more.

Tesseract is heavy. While there's a WebAssembly build, it's much slower in the browser than on a server. We may add a browser fallback for English-only OCR earlier.

EU servers, encrypted, deleted within 60 minutes. Never read by humans.

OCR PDF — Make Scans Searchable — Coming in Phase 3

Make scanned PDFs searchable and selectable with optical character recognition. 100+ languages. Coming in Phase 3 — Tesseract on EU servers.

Processed in your browser. Files never uploaded.

·Free · No sign-up · Up to 100 MB

Phase 3 · Q3 2026

OCR PDF is coming soon

This tool needs server-side processing we haven't shipped yet. Drop your email and we'll let you know the day it goes live — no other newsletter, no spam.

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How to ocr pdf

Three steps. Start to finish in under a minute.

Coming in Phase 3

Q3 2026 launch with 100+ languages.

Workaround now

Take a screenshot of each page and paste into Google Lens for OCR.

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Why LovedPDF

Why use LovedPDF for ocr pdf

100+ languages

Tesseract covers nearly every written language.

Searchable output

Output PDF has selectable, searchable text overlaid on the original.

Privacy-respecting

EU servers, encrypted, no AI training.

Frequently asked questions

PDF to Text

Extract plain text from a PDF

Compress PDF

Reduce PDF file size

Merge PDF

Combine PDFs into one file

Split PDF

Split a PDF into pages or ranges