Turn scanned pages and images into selectable text.
Turn scanned pages and images into selectable text. OCR PDF runs entirely in your web browser, so your file is processed on your own device and is never uploaded to MyPDFMate.
Answers to the questions people ask most about using OCR PDF.
OCR (optical character recognition) reads the text in a picture or scan and turns it into real text you can copy, search and edit.
Upload a JPG or PNG of the page to OCR PDF on MyPDFMate and click OCR PDF. The recognized text appears on screen and downloads as a .txt file.
Convert the PDF's pages to images with PDF to JPG, then run each page image through OCR PDF and copy the text into your document.
Not directly. OCR PDF gives you the text as a plain .txt file. It doesn't add a hidden text layer to your PDF.
Either the PDF is a scan (a picture with no text layer) or it has security settings that block copying. OCR recovers text from scans, and Unlock PDF removes restrictions if you know the password.
OCR PDF recognizes English text. Documents in other languages may come out inaccurate.
Clear, printed text in a sharp, well-lit image is recognized very accurately. Blurry photos, skewed pages, tiny fonts and handwriting reduce accuracy, so use the clearest image you can.
OCR works best on printed text. Neat block handwriting is partly recognized, but cursive usually isn't.
Yes. OCR PDF is free, needs no account and has no daily limit.
No. Text recognition runs in your browser. The first run downloads the recognition data, so it can take a few extra seconds.
Extract the text with OCR PDF and paste it into Word or Google Docs. PDF to Word keeps scanned pages as pictures, so OCR is the step that makes the text editable.