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Scanned PDF to Searchable PDF

Recognize Bengali or English text on each scanned PDF page in your browser. Download a new PDF with page images and a searchable OCR text layer.

Each page is rebuilt as an image with a searchable OCR text layer.

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This tool runs in your browser. Selected files are not sent to our server.

How to use it

  1. Choose a scanned PDF up to 25 MB and 10 pages.
  2. Select the OCR language and create the new PDF.
  3. Open the download, inspect every page, and search for a few words.

What to know

Every page is rasterized into a new image. Links, forms, bookmarks, vector quality, and digital signatures from the original PDF are not retained. OCR can misread names and numbers. Pages where no words are recognized remain visible but not searchable. Limits: 25 MB and 10 pages; password-protected PDFs are unsupported.

Frequently asked questions

Will the scan image remain visible?

The new PDF contains an image of each page plus an invisible OCR text layer.

Will every word be searchable?

Only words recognized correctly by OCR. Compare important text with the source scan.

Is my PDF uploaded?

No. PDF rendering and OCR run in your browser.