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OCR PDF

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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A · Keep going

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B · 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.

C · FAQ

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

Image-only scans have no text layer to read. Recognising text inside images needs a full OCR engine. That’s on the roadmap; this tool covers every PDF with embedded text today.

The text output preserves the words; the searchable output rebuilds them into a clean, copyable PDF.