Free PDF Scan Cleanup and OCR Tool - Detect and Add Text from Images

Select languages that are to be detected within the PDF (Ones listed are the ones currently detected):

eng

OCR Mode

Additional Settings

Produce text file containing OCR text alongside the OCR'ed PDF

Correct pages were scanned at a skewed angle by rotating them back into place

Clean page so its less likely that OCR will find text in background noise. (No output change)

Clean page so its less likely that OCR will find text in background noise, maintains cleanup in output.

Remove images after OCR (Removes ALL images, only useful if part of conversion step)

Render Type (Advanced)

This service uses OCRmyPDF and Tesseract for OCR.

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Free PDF Scan Cleanup and OCR Tool - Detect and Add Text from Images

Clean up scanned PDFs and detect text from images using our free OCR tool. Easily convert scanned images within PDFs to editable text. Fast, accurate, and secure.

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