PDF OCR — Make Scanned PDFs Searchable
Convert scanned PDFs into searchable, selectable text using Tesseract OCR — supports 22 languages including English, German, French, Spanish and more.
Why Choose Our AI-Powered PDF OCR?
AllCloudTools offers a highly secure and accurate OCR service for your PDF files. Convert scanned documents or images to fully searchable PDFs or plain text with ease.
100% Private & Secure
Your files are processed securely. We guarantee that your documents are deleted immediately after completion.
AI-Powered Accuracy
Powered by advanced Tesseract OCR models to ensure precise character recognition across multiple languages.
Flexible Formats
Keep the original document layout with a searchable PDF layer, or extract raw text directly.
How to Run OCR on PDF in 4 Steps
Upload PDF
Select or drag and drop a scanned or image-based PDF document up to 100 MB.
Select Language
Choose the primary language of the text in your document for best OCR accuracy.
Download Result
Click 'Run OCR' to process. Once done, customize the filename and download your result.
document_ocr.pdf
Selectable & Searchable
PDF OCR — Frequently Asked Questions
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) scans the image content of a PDF and converts it into real, selectable text. This is useful for scanned documents or image-based PDFs that contain no embedded text.
The tool supports 22 languages including English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Bulgarian, Greek, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, and Arabic.
Searchable PDF keeps the original look of your document and adds an invisible text layer on top, so you can search and copy text. Text Only extracts the recognized text as a plain .txt file.
Accuracy depends on the scan quality and the selected language. Clear, high-resolution scans typically achieve 95%+ accuracy. For best results, select the correct document language.
No. Your files are processed immediately and deleted right after. We never store, share, or analyse your documents.