PDF → PDF
Read a PDF
Keep it as PDF
The characters printed on your PDF come back as text you can edit, written straight into a PDF file.
Drop images or PDFs here to extract text
JPG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, WEBP, GIF, PDF, JP2 — up to 10MB
PDFPDF in
Pages that are really images with no text layer underneath. Up to ten pages per job.
PDFPDF out
Your page as it looked, with a transparent text layer sitting behind it. Looks unchanged, but now selects, copies and searches.
Three steps, start to file
Add your PDF
Drag it onto the panel or browse for it. Several files at a time is fine.
Set the language
Tell the reader which script it is looking at, and leave the output on PDF.
Take the PDF
The text comes back written into the format you asked for, ready to download.
Same source, other endings
The reading is identical — only the file it lands in changes.