Get this job done without an upload detour
Turn image-only scans into searchable documents while keeping the source PDF on your device.
- 1Choose a scanned PDF
- 2Select the document language
- 3Run OCR locally and download the searchable PDF
Core tools · Four-language OCR
OCR PDF Online
Recognize English, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, or Japanese text in scanned PDFs and create a searchable PDF.
✓ Files stay on your device✓ No signup to get started✓ Free browser workflow
Your document stays under your control
Page images and recognized text stay inside the browser during OCR. The scanned document body is not sent to YourPDFJob for recognition.
Check these before you start
- Supported recognition languages are English, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, and Japanese.
- Handwriting, curved pages, low contrast, and complex tables can reduce accuracy.
- OCR is resource intensive; long high-resolution scans may take time on mobile devices.
Make a scanned receipt searchable
- Input
- A three-page image-only Spanish receipt PDF
- Result
- A searchable PDF whose recognized Spanish text can be selected and found.
Verify the privacy claim yourself
Page images and recognized text stay inside the browser during OCR. The scanned document body is not sent to YourPDFJob for recognition. You can inspect your browser Network panel while the job runs to confirm whether any PDF body leaves the device.
Learn how to verify local processing