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PDFCraftFREE

By Craftman Studios

OCR PDF

Convert scanned PDF documents and image files into searchable, selectable, editable plain text using browser-based WebAssembly Tesseract.js engine.

Upload for OCR PDF

Select JPG, PNG, WEBP photos to process locally.

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100% Private • Processed strictly inside your browser memory

How to use OCR PDF

  1. 1

    Upload your scanned PDF or document image.

  2. 2

    Select OCR language.

  3. 3

    Click "Recognize Text" and monitor progress.

  4. 4

    Copy recognized text or download as a text file.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Does OCR require sending documents to an external server?

No! PDFCraft uses Tesseract.js compiled into WebAssembly. Text recognition runs 100% inside your browser device memory.