Your scan stays pixel-for-pixel identical — but underneath it gains a real text layer, so Ctrl+F, copy-paste and screen readers finally work.
Use This Tool — Free ↗Choose the JPG, PNG or other image files.
Each image becomes a page, in your selected order.
One shareable file, ready to send or print.
A scanned PDF is a photograph of paper: you can read it, but your computer can't. That means no Ctrl+F, no copying a paragraph into an email, no highlighting in a PDF reader, and nothing for screen readers to speak. Every archive built from scans — contracts, invoices, delivery notes, old records — carries this problem silently until the day you need to find something in it.
OCR PDF fixes the file once, permanently. The recognized text is embedded as an invisible layer under the original image, a technique sometimes called "sandwich PDF": what you see is still your exact scan, but underneath it every word is real, machine-readable text. The file works in Adobe Reader, browser viewers, phones — anywhere.
It also pairs naturally with our other tools: run OCR PDF first, and the document becomes fully usable in PDF to Word, Extract Text, or any reader's own search. And if you just need to find a code once without changing the file, Search PDF does that in a single pass — no download needed.
It recognizes the text in each scanned page image and embeds it as an invisible layer underneath. The page looks identical, but search, text selection, copy-paste and screen readers now work.
Search PDF finds terms for you in one session without changing the file. OCR PDF changes the file itself — you download a permanently searchable PDF you can use anywhere, in any reader.
No. Pages that already carry a real text layer are copied through untouched — only image-only pages are processed, so mixed documents stay clean.
English and Turkish are recognized together by default, which also covers most Latin-alphabet text reliably.
No. The visible page is your original image; only an invisible text layer is added underneath it.
Files up to 50 MB and 60 pages per file. You can process several files in one batch — each comes back as its own searchable PDF.