Scanned PDFs are images. You can't search them, copy from them, or feed them to an AI summarizer. OCR fixes that.
What OCR does
Optical Character Recognition reads the pixels, identifies characters, and writes an invisible text layer over the original scan. The PDF looks identical, but now it's searchable and selectable.
Supported languages
English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Odia, Urdu, Assamese.
Accuracy tips
- **300 DPI scans** produce the best results
- **Straight** documents outperform skewed ones
- **Clean backgrounds** beat noisy ones
- **Printed text** is easier than handwriting
Use cases
- Digitizing old records
- Making research papers searchable
- Extracting text from scanned books
- Feeding scanned contracts to AI summarizers