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PDF to Text (OCR)

Pull text out of a scanned or image-based PDF using on-device AI-powered OCR, processed in your browser.

Drag a PDF here, or choose a file

For scanned or image-based PDFs - a clear scan works best.

You can also paste a file directly (Ctrl+V or ⌘V).

This tool runs entirely in your browser. Your file is not uploaded to a server at any point.

Scanned PDF to Text

A scanned PDF may look like a normal document but actually consist of page images rather than selectable characters. OCR - optical character recognition - analyzes those images and attempts to identify the printed text inside them.

OCR Directly on Your Device

Filevolo's OCR engine runs in your browser using WebAssembly rather than sending the document to a cloud OCR service. Clear, straight, high-resolution scans usually produce the best results.

Frequently asked questions

Both - the engine is Tesseract, a neural-network-based text recognizer, the same category of model competitors now brand as "AI-powered." It runs entirely on your device as WebAssembly rather than calling a cloud AI service.

PDFs where the pages are scanned images rather than real, selectable text - the common result of scanning a paper document. If a PDF already has real text, you can select and copy it directly in any PDF viewer, no OCR needed.

It depends on scan quality. A clear, straight, well-lit scan of printed text comes back close to perfect. Heavy skew, low resolution, or handwriting all reduce accuracy.

No. The file is read and the OCR engine runs entirely in your browser using WebAssembly. Nothing is uploaded to a server.

Yes - each page is processed in order, and the result is labeled by page number so you can tell where each part of the text came from.

That's OCR PDF, at /ocr-pdf - same on-device OCR engine, built to embed the recognized text invisibly back into your PDF instead of extracting it to a separate file.

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