What to know before OCR
- Image quality matters. Sharp 300 DPI scans give the most accurate text recognition.
- Pick the right language. Choose the document’s primary language for the best accuracy — mixed-language PDFs may need a second pass.
- Output is searchable. The new PDF lets you select, copy and search text just like a normal document.
Want fully editable output? Try PDF to Word →
What this tool is best for
- Converting scanned PDFs to editable text
- Making documents searchable
- Extracting text from images
Just need plain text from the scan? Use PDF to Text →
Related PDF tools
- PDF to Text — export the recognised text as a plain .txt file
- PDF to Word — turn the OCR output into an editable Word document
- Edit PDF — modify the searchable PDF after OCR
- Compress PDF — shrink the OCR’d file for sharing
