OCR PDF (Text Recognition)

experimental

Run optical character recognition locally with Tesseract.js to pull text out of scanned pages. Experimental and slower than cloud OCR — but completely private.

Runs in browserIn: PDF → Out: TXT

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Files are read locally — never uploaded

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This tool runs entirely in your browser. Your file is read into this tab, processed on your device, and never uploaded to PDFDig or any third party. Closing the tab clears it from memory.

Frequently asked

Is the OCR model an API call?+

No. The Tesseract model is downloaded to your browser once and runs locally. Your page images are never sent anywhere.

Why is it slow?+

Recognition runs on your device's CPU via WebAssembly. Limiting the page count keeps it responsive.