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TURN A SCANNED IMAGE INTO A SEARCHABLE, SELECTABLE-TEXT PDF

Image to Searchable PDF

Convert a photo or scan into a PDF with an invisible, searchable text layer laid over the image — the page still looks identical, but the text becomes selectable and searchable.

Drag & drop an image, or browse
PNG, JPG or WebP, up to 25MB

Frequently asked questions

Image to Text gives you the extracted text on its own, as plain text. This tool keeps the original scanned image looking exactly the same, but adds an invisible searchable/selectable text layer behind it — useful for archiving scanned documents.

No — visually it's identical to your uploaded image; the only change is the invisible text layer added underneath, which is what makes it searchable in PDF viewers.

It runs full OCR text recognition and then builds a PDF around the result, which takes more processing than a simple image conversion.

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