PDF OCR - Extract Text from Scanned PDFs Instantly

Scanned PDFs are images - not searchable, not selectable, not editable. ForgeFile's PDF OCR engine extracts every character, preserving tables, multi-column layouts, headers, and footers - and delivering the result as a searchable PDF, editable DOCX, or plain text file.

What Types of PDFs Can Be OCR'd?

• Scanned documents - Archival contracts, invoices, correspondence, and records digitized from paper.
• Image-based PDFs - PDFs created by saving images as PDF rather than exporting from a document editor.
• Mixed PDFs - Files containing both selectable text pages and scanned image pages - both types processed in the same job.
• Multi-page PDFs - Full documents of any length - all pages processed sequentially in a single upload.
• Rotated or skewed scans - Automatic deskew and page orientation correction before recognition.

Why Choose ForgeFile for PDF OCR?

• 99% accuracy on clean scans - State-of-the-art AI OCR trained on 100+ languages and document types.
• Table and column preservation - Structured data extracted with rows, columns, and cell relationships intact.
• Searchable PDF output - Get a PDF with an invisible text layer for Ctrl+F search and copy-paste - with original appearance unchanged.
• DOCX export - Get a fully editable Word document with formatting preserved.
• 100+ languages - Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, CJK, Devanagari, and other scripts recognized natively.
• Secure & private - All files encrypted and permanently deleted after processing.