Use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to extract text from scanned documents or image-based PDFs. Download the detected text as a .txt file for editing or searching.
What is OCR and why do I need it for PDFs?
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) extracts text from scanned documents or image-based PDFs. Scanned PDFs look like documents but are actually just images — OCR makes their text searchable and copyable.
How do I extract text from a scanned PDF for free?
Upload your scanned PDF to PDFBro's OCR PDF tool. The text is extracted and provided as a downloadable .txt file.
How accurate is PDFBro's OCR?
Accuracy depends on the scan quality. Clear, high-resolution scans of typed text typically achieve 95%+ accuracy. Handwriting and low-quality scans have lower accuracy.
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Extract text from scanned or image-based PDFs into a .txt file.
This OCR tool extracts any embedded/selectable text and produces a text report. If your PDF is fully scanned and has no embedded text layer, it will still return per-page status so you can identify pages needing advanced OCR.
