Most free OCR tools require you to register with an email address. Here is a truly free OCR tool that requires no account, no email, and no file upload.
The OCR engine (Tesseract) runs as a WebAssembly module directly in your browser. There is no server processing, so no account is needed and nothing is uploaded.
Visit the OCR tool in any browser. Supports 30+ languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and Thai.
Upload your scanned PDF and click Scan All Pages. The tool processes every page and creates editable text overlays.
Tip: Select your document language in the language picker before scanning for the highest accuracy.
Click Save PDF to download your document with the recognized text permanently embedded.
Yes — pdfeditor.onl/ocr-pdf requires no account, no email, and no sign-up of any kind.
Over 30 languages including Latin-script languages, CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), Arabic, Thai, and more.
Yes. Scan All Pages processes every page in your uploaded PDF.