Scanned PDFs are images — you cannot edit the text directly. OCR converts the image to real, selectable, editable text. Here is the complete free workflow.
Upload your scanned PDF. Select the document language. Click Scan All Pages. The Tesseract OCR engine recognizes the text on every page and creates an editable text layer.
Tip: Review the recognized text in the editing panel after OCR. Correct any errors before saving — especially numbers and names which OCR can misread.
After OCR, you can select and modify recognized text directly in the text blocks. Click any recognized word to edit it. Save the corrected PDF.
For full document editing with Word-style tools, convert the OCR-processed PDF to DOCX at pdfeditor.onl/convert-pdf. Open in Microsoft Word or Google Docs for complete editing capability.
Yes. The OCR tool has an editing panel where you can click and modify recognized text blocks before saving.
Yes — OCR and conversion are both completely free at pdfeditor.onl.