PDF2OCR turns scanned PDFs, photographed pages, images and screenshots into text you can edit, search, copy and save. Recognition runs entirely on your computer with Tesseract OCR: your documents are never uploaded, and the text is never translated or rewritten - you get exactly what is on the page.

Read whole documents at once

• Open PDFs, multi-page TIFFs and images, whole folders, or drag them in
• All pages are recognized in parallel, with progress and a Stop button
• Digital PDFs keep their exact text; OCR is only used where it is needed
• Pick the languages of your document: 15 built in, 100+ more in one click

Clean results from imperfect sources

• Sideways, upside-down and slightly tilted pages are straightened automatically
• Photographed pages are flattened: the page corners are found for you
• Optional cleanup for faded scans, coloured paper, specks and small screenshots
• Words that may be misread are flagged in the text and on the page

Get just what you need

• Select an area of a page to read only that part
• Copy a table and paste it straight into LibreOffice Calc or Excel as cells
• Page image and text are linked word by word for quick proofreading
• Find & replace across all pages

From anywhere

• Paste a screenshot, or capture an area of the screen
• Quick capture: press a keyboard shortcut anywhere and the text of the selected area lands on your clipboard (pdf2go --capture)
• Scan directly from USB and network scanners, including document feeders

Save it your way

• Searchable PDF, Word, LibreOffice, Markdown, plain text, Excel and CSV
• Your work is saved automatically and comes back after a restart or crash
• Batch conversion from the terminal: pdf2go --to pdf ~/Scans

USB scanners need a one-time permission:

sudo snap connect pdf2go:raw-usb

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