PDF Tools

Make PDF Searchable (OCR)

Turn a scanned PDF into one you can search, select and copy. The pages look exactly the same.

Drop a scanned PDF to make it searchable

or browse from your device — it opens in the studio, which reads every page for you

  1. 1Drop your scanned PDF
  2. 2The studio reads every page
  3. 3Download a searchable PDF
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OCR PDF online — make scanned PDFs searchable

Scanned documents are just pictures of pages, so you can't search them, select a sentence or copy a figure. Drop your scanned PDF and it opens in the Mega AI Studio, which reads the words on every page by itself. When you download, the words are added as an invisible layer behind each page, so the PDF looks exactly as before but becomes fully searchable and copyable — and in the studio you can even edit the scanned text first.

Searchable and copyable

Find any word with Ctrl+F, select text and copy it — the pages themselves don't change.

Many languages

Reads English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Polish, Turkish and more — pick the languages in the studio's OCR window.

Edit the scanned text

Click any line of the scan in the studio to change its words, in a matching font.

Frequently asked questions

OCR (optical character recognition) reads the words in the picture of each page and stores them as an invisible text layer behind it. The page looks identical, but you can now search it, select text and copy it.