Read the text in scanned PDFs with OCR, then copy it or download a searchable PDF you can select and search.
Want to edit the text in Word? Paste it into a document, or convert the searchable PDF with PDF to Word.
A PDF that looks exactly like your scan, with an invisible text layer on top. You can then search it with Ctrl+F, select and copy text, and find it in your computer's search.
Usually 2–6 seconds per page on a laptop, longer on phones. Large documents are read page by page, and you can see the progress.
If you can select the text in your PDF viewer, it already has text; use PDF to Text instead, which is faster and exact. OCR is for scans and photos saved as PDF.
No. Every page is read in your browser with the open-source Tesseract engine.