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PDF OCR: Extract Text from Scanned Documents and Make PDFs Searchable

PDFXINET Team 2026-10-29 pdf ocr, extract text from pdf, scanned pdf text, make pdf searchable

What Is OCR?

Optical Character Recognition converts images of text into machine-readable text. PDFXINET uses Tesseract OCR (100+ languages) to add a searchable text layer to any scanned PDF.

Step-by-Step

  1. Go to Tools → OCR Text.
  2. Upload your scanned PDF.
  3. Select the document language.
  4. Click Run OCR and download the searchable PDF.
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