PDF Harbor
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Make scanned PDFs searchable with OCR.

Recognize the text in scanned pages, in English or Spanish, and copy it or save a searchable PDF. On your device.

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  • Keeps working if you go offline
  • Files live in this tab and are gone when you close it
  • Built on open engines: pdf.js, Tesseract and qpdf

Drop PDF or Word files here

Several PDFs are merged in the order you choose.

Or start with a tool

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How it works

  1. Open a scanned PDF.
  2. Press OCR and choose the document language.
  3. Copy the text, download it as .txt or save the searchable PDF.

Questions

Are my files uploaded anywhere?
No. PDF Harbor runs entirely in your browser. Your files are read and processed on your device and are never sent to a server — you can check it in the counter on the home page or with your browser’s network tools.
Which languages are supported?
English and Spanish, or both at once for mixed documents.
Does the PDF look different afterwards?
No. The text is added as an invisible layer on top of the original page.

They will be merged in this order, or continue with just one.

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