The free tool ships English OCR by default.

Will quality match Adobe?

Good for many scans; messy handwriting still struggles.

OCR PDF Online Free (No Upload)

Scans without a text layer cannot be searched or read by assistive tech. On-device OCR fixes that privately.

Open OCR PDF, drop a scanned PDF, wait for page-by-page recognition, download the searchable result.

Language packs may download from a CDN once, then cache in your browser. Document pixels are not sent to SortMyFile servers.

Open the matching SortMyFile tool — processing stays in your browser.