OCR PDF in Your Browser — Scanned Docs Stay Private
Drop a scanned (image-only) PDF and the tool reads the text out of each page — entirely on your device using a WebAssembly build of Tesseract. Pages with an existing text layer are skipped automatically. Because nothing is uploaded, this is the only OCR option safe for HIPAA-protected scans, sealed court records, or any PDF you can't legally upload to a third party.
Drop your PDF here
or click to browse
Don't trust us — verify it yourself
Every claim on this page is auditable in 30 seconds:
- Open browser DevTools (F12 or Cmd+Opt+I).
- Switch to the Network tab and tick Preserve log.
- Run the tool with your file.
- You'll see requests for the page, library code, and ad pixels — never for your PDF.
Even better: load the page, then turn off Wi-Fi. The tool still works, because there's nowhere for the file to go.
FAQ
How is this private if the OCR engine is downloaded?
Only the OCR engine code and language data are downloaded — your PDF stays in your browser. The OCR runs locally as WebAssembly.
Why is the first run slow?
Tesseract downloads ~10 MB of language data the first time. Your browser caches it, so subsequent runs are much faster.