A scanned PDF looks like text but is really a picture of text — you can't search or copy from it. OCR (optical character recognition) reads the image and produces actual text. Here's how it works.
What OCR does
OCR analyzes the image of each page and recognizes the characters, outputting real text you can search, copy, and edit. It works best on clear, straight, reasonably high-resolution scans.
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Good OCR supports many languages, including non-Latin scripts. Pick the language that matches your document for the best accuracy.
Privacy
Scanned documents are often personal. Browser-based OCR runs the recognition on your device, so the document isn't uploaded.