# PDF OCR Extractor

> Perform optical character recognition on scanned PDFs to extract text.

PDF OCR Extractor extracts typed, printed, or handwritten text from images, invoices, photos, and scanned PDF documents using client-side optical character recognition in your browser. All OCR scanning runs privately on your device without uploading files to any external servers.

**URL:** https://convertto.tech/t/pdf-to-text-ocr
**Category:** Image Tools (https://convertto.tech/c/image-tools)
**Privacy:** Runs entirely in the browser; no upload
**Cost:** Free, no sign-up
**Last updated:** 2026-08-01

## Key facts

- **Privacy:** Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded
- **Cost:** Free, unlimited, no sign-up

## How to use

1. Select your image file — the file stays on your device and is never uploaded.
2. Press Run, then download the result when it is ready.

## FAQ

### Is my scanned image or document uploaded to a server?

No. OCR processing runs entirely within your web browser using WebAssembly and Web Workers.

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