Scanned PDFs cannot be edited directly — they are images. To edit the text content, you first need OCR to create a real text layer. Here is the complete free workflow.
Go to pdfeditor.onl/ocr-pdf. Upload your scanned PDF. Select the document language. Click Scan All Pages. Review and correct the recognized text. Save the OCR-processed PDF.
Tip: After OCR, the document still looks like a scan — but now has a selectable, searchable text layer underneath.
Click any recognized text block in the OCR editor and modify it. This embeds your changes as text annotations on the page.
Open the OCR-processed PDF in pdfeditor.onl/pdf-studio. Use the Eraser to white-out incorrect content. Use the Text tool to type the correct replacement.
For extensive editing, convert the OCR-processed PDF to DOCX at pdfeditor.onl/convert-pdf. Edit in Word or Google Docs for full document editing capability.
No. Without OCR, the text is just pixels in an image — not selectable or editable text.
Yes — all tools are completely free at pdfeditor.onl.