PDF → Text (OCR)
Extract text from PDFs with OCR – 26 languages
Why PDF → Text (OCR)?
Make scanned PDFs searchable and editable – OCR recognizes text in 26 languages, even with poor scan quality or multi-page documents. Perfect for invoices, contracts, study materials, and archived documents. Your files are deleted immediately after conversion.
Frequently Asked Questions
What happens during PDF to Text OCR?
Your PDF document is analyzed page by page and the recognized text is returned as an editable TXT file. For scanned PDFs (images), OCR is used to read the text. For already searchable PDFs, the embedded text is extracted directly.
What's the difference between scanned and searchable PDFs?
Searchable PDFs already contain embedded text that can be extracted directly. Scanned PDFs consist only of images – here OCR is used to recognize the text in the image. Our converter automatically detects the type and applies OCR when needed.
Which languages are supported?
26 languages are supported, including English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Russian, and many more. For multilingual documents, you can specify multiple languages at once.
Are my PDFs stored on the server?
No, your PDFs are deleted immediately and automatically after conversion. We don't store any files and don't keep logs. Your documents stay 100% private.