Extract text and create searchable PDF layers from scanned receipts, contracts, books, and images using in-browser Optical Character Recognition.
Follow these simple steps to process your document privately in seconds.
Open the scanned PDF or image in PDF Studio.
Click OCR in the top toolbar to run the local recognition worker across pages.
Copy recognized text directly or export the PDF with embedded searchable text.
Powered by Tesseract.js running in a Web Worker, ensuring high character recognition accuracy without server transmission.
Generates an invisible selectable text layer aligned over the scanned image, enabling instant Ctrl+F search and text copying.
Review recognized text lines side-by-side with the original scan to inspect and correct any ambiguous characters.
Supports English and major language datasets for accurate multi-lingual document recognition.
Includes image processing tools (contrast, binarization, gamma adjustment) to boost OCR accuracy on faint scans.
Ideal for financial statements, tax filings, and legal records because images never leave your computer.
Your PDF is processed directly on your computer using WebAssembly and HTML5 Canvas technology. At no point during viewing, editing, or exporting is your file transmitted to external servers. Review our Security Architecture or read our verified Privacy Policy.
PDF Studio uses WebAssembly to execute the industry-standard Tesseract OCR engine directly inside your web browser. The image is parsed in local memory without uploading to a cloud server.
Yes! The exported PDF contains a searchable text layer, meaning you can search with Ctrl+F / Cmd+F and highlight text in standard PDF readers like Adobe Acrobat or Apple Preview.
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