OCR PDF Online
Run OCR (optical character recognition) on a scanned PDF to make it searchable and selectable. Drop a scan and get back text you can copy, search, or feed into AI tools.
- Works in your browser
- Files isolated to your workspace
- No software install required
Drop your PDF here
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PDF, DOCX, JPG, PNG supported · Max file size: 100 MB
How to ocr pdf online
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Upload the scanned PDF
Drop a scan from your phone, scanner, or fax archive.
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Run OCR
MyPDFKitty extracts the text from each page.
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Use the text
Search, copy, or pass the result to the AI Summarizer or Chat with PDF.
When to use this tool
- You received a scanned contract you can't search.
- You're digitizing receipts or invoices for accounting.
- You want to translate or summarize text inside a scan.
- You're moving a paper archive into a searchable cloud library.
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Frequently asked questions
How accurate is OCR?+
Accuracy depends on the scan quality. Clean, high-contrast scans deliver near-perfect text; faint or skewed scans need light cleanup.
Does OCR support languages other than English?+
We're rolling out multi-language OCR. English-language scans work today.
Will the layout be preserved?+
OCR focuses on extracting text. To keep the visual layout, also save the original PDF alongside the OCR output.
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Run OCR (optical character recognition) on a scanned PDF to make it searchable and selectable.