Most “free OCR” sites upload every page to a cloud API. SortMyFile’s OCR PDF tool recognizes text in your browser, merges searchable pages with pdf-lib, and lets you Cmd/Ctrl+F the result — without sending document pixels to our servers.
How it works
Each page is rendered, passed through Tesseract with a searchable PDF output, then merged. Large scans take minutes; the first run may download English language data once.
Free limits
Free tier caps OCR pages per day so tabs stay usable. Pro will raise caps 10× when checkout ships.
Try it now
Open the matching SortMyFile tool — processing stays in your browser.