Add an invisible text layer to a scanned PDF so it becomes searchable and selectable.
Turn a Scan into a Real Document
A scanned page is just a picture — you cannot search it or copy from it. OCR reads the text in the image and layers it invisibly over the page, so the document looks identical but becomes fully searchable.
Privacy Note
This tool needs server-side processing. Your file is uploaded only for the duration of the operation and is deleted from our server immediately afterwards — it is never stored, indexed, or shared.
Key Features
- Appearance is unchanged — the text layer is invisible
- Pages that already contain real text are skipped, not damaged
- Output is PDF/A, a long-term archival format
- Limited to 15 pages per file and English text
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