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Scanned PDF to Editable Word — Free OCR
Turn scanned PDFs and photos of documents into editable Word files with PdfWord's free OCR — powered by Tesseract, running 100% in your browser. No other free site does this without uploading your scans to a server.
Unlike most online converters, PdfWord processes your files entirely in your browser — nothing is ever uploaded to a server. There are no accounts, no daily limits, no watermarks, and every tool is free forever.
Scanned PDF to Word (OCR)
Upload a scanned PDF — AI reads every page and builds an editable Word document.
How OCR works here: each page is rendered as an image and read by the Tesseract OCR engine inside your browser. Best results with clean, straight scans. First use downloads the OCR engine once (~5MB), then it's cached.
How to convert a scanned PDF to Word
- Upload your scanned PDF
- Click Extract Text (OCR) — each page is read automatically
- Review the extracted text, then Download Editable Word
Frequently asked questions
Very good on clean, straight scans. Handwriting, blurry photos, and fancy fonts reduce accuracy — always proofread important documents.
No — unlike every other free OCR site, your scans never leave your device. The OCR runs entirely in your browser.
Your browser downloads the OCR engine once (~5MB). After that it's cached and instant to start.
English, Urdu, Arabic, Spanish and French — pick your language before extracting text.