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Make a scanned PDF searchable (OCR)

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A scanned PDF is made of pictures of pages, so you can’t search or copy its text. OCR reads the pictures and adds real text.

  1. Open the scanned PDF.
  2. Tap Make searchable (OCR).
  3. Pick the document’s language, then save.

OCR runs on your phone, not on our servers, and reads more than 100 languages. Try it free on the first pages of a file. Pro runs it on whole files.

Clear, straight scans give the best results. A blurry or tilted page may come out with a few wrong words.