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How to OCR a scanned PDF

Oct 25, 2026Scaneli

Make English text in a scan searchable. Pro.

How to OCR a scanned PDF

Open OCR PDF and add a scanned PDF of up to 30 pages.

Scaneli reads the English text on each page and returns a PDF you can search. The pages are redrawn as images with a text layer, so this is for scans, not for editing the original layout. The first run downloads an English language file into your browser. The PDF itself is not uploaded.

OCR is part of Pro.