OCR on Chinese-language scanned PDFs — whether Simplified or Traditional Chinese — is supported free in the browser with Tesseract's Chinese language models.
Navigate to the OCR tool.
Choose Chinese Simplified (中文简体) or Chinese Traditional (中文繁體) from the language picker depending on your document script.
Tip: For Hong Kong and Taiwan documents, select Traditional Chinese. For mainland China documents, select Simplified Chinese.
Click Scan All Pages. Save the searchable Chinese PDF.
Yes. Select the appropriate Chinese variant from the language picker.
Yes — completely free at pdfeditor.onl/ocr-pdf.