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ProCutOut

Free Online PDF OCR

Convert scanned and image-only PDFs into selectable, searchable text with OCR.

or drag and drop your PDF here

Select a scanned PDF up to ~50MB — client-side Tesseract OCR via WebAssembly

No PDF? Try a sample:

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Sample Invoice (1 Page)
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Quarterly Report (2 Pages)

How to use

  1. 1Upload a scanned or image-based PDF — pages render at high resolution automatically.
  2. 2Watch the live progress bar as the OCR engine reads each page in turn.
  3. 3Review the recognized text, word count and average confidence score.
  4. 4Click Copy all text, or Download as .txt to save the result.

Privacy: OCR runs fully in your browser using Tesseract compiled to WebAssembly — the PDF is never uploaded to a server.

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