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Scanned PDF to Text

Advanced Settings

Enhancement Filters

BRIGHTNESS0%

CONTRAST0%

DESKEW ROTATION0°

BINARIZE THRESHOLD

OCR Engine config

LANGUAGE

RECOGNITION MODE

Pages that already carry a text layer are read directly — faster and exact. Deskew forces OCR.

LOW-CONFIDENCE MARK BELOW75%

Words below this score are underlined red in the Verification pane.

Learn & Help

How to OCR Scanned PDFs to Editable Text

1Upload Scanned PDF
Select your scanned PDF file or document photo.
2Select Recognition Language
Pick from 50+ languages (English, Spanish, German, French, Hindi, etc.).
3Configure Preprocessing
Enable automatic contrast enhancement and binarization.
4Run OCR & Download
Extract recognized text and download as editable TXT or copy to clipboard.

OCR Language Selection: Choose from 50+ languages to match your document.
Contrast Enhancement: Binarizes and cleans background scan noise for higher accuracy.

Offline Tesseract WASM OCR
Recognizes text from scans without sending image data to cloud servers.
Automatic Preprocessing
Enhances contrast, deskews, and binarizes pages for maximum OCR accuracy.
50+ Global Languages
Recognizes multilingual scripts, accents, and special characters.
Zero Data Leakage
Safe for medical records, legal filings, and confidential contracts.

Before optical character recognition, PDFixel executes Otsu threshold binarization and Radon deskewing to align tilted text lines and eliminate background paper shadow artifacts.

Yes! You can load multiple language neural models simultaneously to parse bilingual contracts, receipts, and identity documents.

Scanned PDF to Text

Turn scanned paper documents into searchable text with AI-powered OCR.

Convert Scanned PDF with WASM OCR

Drag and drop your photocopied or scanned PDFs to perform text restoration.

Max 100MB per fileUp to 50 files

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