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Free online OCR: make a scanned PDF searchable
A scanned or photographed document is just an image: you can't search for a word or copy a sentence. Read a scan recognizes every letter (this is called OCR) and adds the real text to the document without changing how it looks. Reading happens on your device: your document is not uploaded. Only the model for the chosen language (a few MB) is downloaded once.
What is it for?
- Find a word in a long scanned contract with Ctrl + F.
- Copy the text of a photographed invoice or letter.
- Make digitized paper archives accessible to blind people.
How does it work?
- 1Drop your scanA scanned PDF or a photo of a document.
- 2Choose the languageThe language of the document's text.
- 3Click Read a scanYou get a PDF where text can be searched and copied, or a text file.
Why pdffusion?
100% free
No subscription, no credit card, no watermark added to your documents.
No sign-up
No account to create: open the page, drop your files, done.
Your files stay yours
Processed, then deleted right away. We keep neither your documents nor your data.
Every format
PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OpenDocument, images, EPUB… from a computer or a phone.
Frequently asked questions
What does OCR mean?
Optical character recognition: the computer recognizes the letters in an image to turn them into real text.
Is my document uploaded?
No: reading happens entirely on your device. Only the language model is downloaded, once.
Is pdffusion really free?
Yes. Every tool is free, with no watermark and nothing locked behind a subscription. No credit card is ever requested.
Do I need an account?
No. No sign-up, no email address: you use the tools right away.
Are my documents kept?
No. Your files are only used for the task you asked for, then deleted. Nobody reads them and they are never shared.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes. pdffusion runs in the browser of any phone, tablet or computer (Android, iPhone, Windows, Mac, Linux), with nothing to install.
Which formats are supported?
PDF, Word (DOCX, DOC), Excel (XLSX, XLS, CSV), PowerPoint (PPTX, PPT), OpenDocument (ODT, ODS, ODP), RTF, images (JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, HEIC (iPhone), TIFF, GIF, SVG), EPUB, TXT, HTML and more.
Are there any limits?
You can process up to 500 files at once, and a produced document can have up to 10,000 pages.