Scanned PDF OCR Form
Local PDF File:		(*.PDF)
PDF Page:
Languages:	Afrikaans Amharic Arabic Assamese Azerbaijani Azerbaijani - Cyrilic Belarusian Bengali Tibetan Bosnian Bulgarian Catalan - Valencian Cebuano Czech Chinese - Simplified Chinese - Traditional Cherokee Welsh Danish Danish - Fraktur German German - Fraktur Dzongkha Greek - Modern English English - Middle Esperanto Math / equation detection module Estonian Basque Persian Finnish French Frankish French - Middle Irish Galician Greek - Ancient Gujarati Haitian - Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Croatian Hungarian Inuktitut Indonesian Icelandic Italian Italian - Old Javanese Japanese Kannada Georgian Georgian - Old Kazakh Central Khmer Kirghiz - Kyrgyz Korean Kurdish Lao Latin Latvian Lithuanian Malayalam Marathi Macedonian Maltese Malay Burmese Nepali Dutch - Flemish Norwegian Oriya Panjabi - Punjabi Polish Portuguese Pushto - Pashto Romanian - Moldavian - Moldovan Russian Sanskrit Sinhala - Sinhalese Slovak Slovak - Fraktur Slovenian Spanish - Castilian Spanish - Castilian - Old Albanian Serbian Serbian - Latin Swahili Swedish Syriac Tamil Telugu Tajik Tagalog Thai Tigrinya Turkish Uighur - Uyghur Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Uzbek - Cyrilic Vietnamese Yiddish

Use this form to upload a local scanned PDF file and convert the PDF file to text (*.txt) file.

1. Click the "Choose File" button (different web browsers may have different button names such as "browse..."), a browse window will open, select a local Adobe PDF file and click the "Open" button. You can also convert image files to text files.
2. Set PDF page. You can set only one PDF page to convert at one time because OCR processing is very slow. The default value is 1 which means the first page.
3. You must select the right language if the PDF isn't using default English. It can't automatically detect which language a scanned PDF file is using.
4. Click the "Convert Now!" button to convert. Wait a few seconds for the file conversion to finish.
5. You can download or view the txt file on your web browser after conversion. No email address required to receive files.

Scanned PDF OCR: When you scan a paper using an electronic scanning device, the whole content will be captured as an image. So when you save it as PDF file, there's no text content but only an image embedded in the PDF file. A scanner doesn't recognize the character of every word when it creates the scanned image. To convert scanned PDF file into plain text, OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software is required to analyze the image of each character and match it to an electronic character-based file. The OCR software this online converter is using is Tesseract-OCR which is an excellent open-source program. The quality of the OCR text output is mainly affected by the image quality of the scanned document.