OCR PDF
Got a scan or a photographed document? Fudobe runs OCR in your browser to read the text off the pixels — so a flat image becomes words you can copy. The file never leaves your device.
How to ocr pdf
Drop your scanned PDF onto the box above (or click to choose it).
Fudobe opens it in Convert and runs OCR on your device.
Watch it recognise the text, page by page.
Save the recognised text to your device — no upload, no cloud OCR service.
Most online PDF tools upload your file to their servers. Fudobe does it in your browser — your document never leaves your device.
Your scanned passport has no business being uploaded to a free website. Here it isn’t.
OCR PDF — your questions
Where does the OCR run — is my scan uploaded?+
It runs entirely in your browser, on your device. Scans are often the most sensitive documents — IDs, contracts, records — so Fudobe never sends them to a cloud OCR service.
What languages does it handle?+
It uses Tesseract, which recognises a wide range of languages and works best on reasonably clear scans.
It’s slow on big files — why?+
OCR is heavy work and it’s happening on your own machine instead of a server farm. Larger or higher-resolution scans take longer, but your document stays private.
Is it free?+
Yes — free, no account, no watermark, because it runs on your device.