OCR PDF, make scanned text searchable
Make scanned PDFs searchable and selectable with optical character recognition. 100+ languages. Coming in Phase 3, Tesseract on EU servers.
Drop your files
Server-side processing (necessary for this tool). File deleted right after we send back the result.
Up to 100 MBFiles stay in your browser
Why this tool needs a server (and how we handle it)
- This tool needs a binary that doesn't run in browsers (Ghostscript, qpdf, LibreOffice, or Tesseract).
- Your file is processed in an isolated tmpdir per request, on our EU-region server.
- We delete the tmpdir immediately after the response is sent. A nightly sweep catches anything orphaned by crashes.
- No logging of file contents. No human review. Never used for AI training.
- Encrypted in transit (TLS), HSTS preload + strict CSP enforced.
How to ocr pdf
Three steps. Start to finish in under a minute.
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Coming in Phase 3
Q3 2026 launch with 100+ languages.
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Workaround now
Take a screenshot of each page and paste into Google Lens for OCR.
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Join waitlist
Get notified when this ships.
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.