OCR PDF

No upload · runs in your browser

Pull the text out of a PDF so it’s searchable and copyable. FernPDF reads the document’s text layer and rebuilds it for you.

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Recognizing text inside a scanned image needs an OCR engine, and this site doesn't have one yet. A PDF that already has a text layer is unaffected, that extraction is exact and lives on PDF to Text.

How it works

Make any PDF searchable with on-device text recognition

OCR is where privacy matters most: scans are usually contracts, IDs and records. FernPDF reads text entirely in your browser.

The result lets you search, select, and copy, or pipe it into PDF to Word for full editing.

FAQ

For PDFs that contain a text layer, extraction is exact: every word is read directly from the document, entirely on-device.

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