Guide · OCR PDF
Recognize the text in an image-based PDF
To quote a passage from a scanned book or reuse the text of an old letter, the words have to be recognized first. Printed text is recognized far more reliably than handwriting. PDFly's OCR PDF tool is in development and will be free.
In development
Coming soon — and free
This tool is in development. Like every PDFly tool, it will be free, with fair-use limits: files up to 50 MB and 20 operations per day, processed on our servers in the EU.
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