Run PDF OCR locally.

Recognize text in scanned PDFs directly in the browser and export text, JSON, or a searchable image PDF.

Local processing in your browser No storage on Convexio servers Free, no sign-up

Before you start

On first run, the browser downloads the text recognition files and stores them for later visits.
A recent desktop browser with enough memory is recommended.

Ready

Choose PDF Text recognition runs locally in this browser tab.

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