Free OCR to Word

Extract text from a scanned PDF

Use OCR when PDF pages contain images instead of selectable words.

Identify an image-only PDF

If you cannot select individual words in a PDF viewer, the page may be a scanned picture of text.

Recognize its pages

Add the PDF to Free OCR to Word and run recognition with the appropriate language. Review the output against the source.

Choose your export

Use DOCX to keep text placement, pictures and editable table cells. Choose TXT when you only need the words.

See the scanned PDF to Word steps.