Extract text from scanned PDFs using optical character recognition.
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Accepts PDF · Max 50MB per file · Up to 3 files
Extract text from scanned PDFs, photos of documents, and image-based PDFs using Socera's OCR tool. Supports 10 languages and outputs either a plain text file or a searchable PDF with an embedded text layer. Ideal for digitizing paper documents, making old scans searchable, and converting scanned contracts into editable text.
Upload a scanned or image-based PDF that contains text you want to extract.
Select the document language for better recognition accuracy. Choose between plain text output or a searchable PDF.
Download your extracted text file or searchable PDF.
Upload your scanned PDF to Socera's OCR PDF tool, select the document language, choose plain text or searchable PDF output, and download your result.
Socera's OCR supports English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, Arabic, and Russian.
Plain text (.txt) extracts the recognized characters as a text file. Searchable PDF embeds the recognized text as a hidden layer in the original PDF, making it searchable while preserving the visual appearance.
OCR accuracy depends on scan quality. Clean, high-resolution scans (300 DPI or higher) achieve 95%+ accuracy for printed text. Handwriting and low-quality scans may have lower accuracy.
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