How OCR PDF works
Recognize text from scanned PDF pages locally in your browser. The workflow below reflects the actual inputs, outputs and limits of this specific tool.
- What you provide
- A scanned or image-based PDF and page selection.
- What AG File Tools returns
- Recognized plain text from the rendered PDF pages, available to copy or download.
- Practical limit
- OCR accuracy varies with scan quality, language, rotation, handwriting and page complexity. The output is plain text rather than a fully reconstructed searchable PDF.
1Provide
A scanned or image-based PDF and page selection.
2Configure
Render selected PDF pages locally
3Process locally
Your browser performs the work on this device.
4Use the result
Recognized plain text from the rendered PDF pages, available to copy or download.
Best use cases and supported workflow
- Render selected PDF pages locally
- Recognize text with OCR
- Copy or download extracted text
Result: Recognized plain text from the rendered PDF pages, available to copy or download.