Steps
Open OCR PDF, drop the scan, wait for page-by-page recognition, download the searchable file, then verify with Find.
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Image-only PDFs fail Ctrl+F and screen readers. This long-tail page points at SortMyFile’s on-device OCR — distinct from generic “ocr pdf” head terms owned by Adobe-class brands.
Open OCR PDFOpen OCR PDF, drop the scan, wait for page-by-page recognition, download the searchable file, then verify with Find.
If you compressed first, OCR quality depends on the raster. Prefer OCR on the cleanest available scan.
Document pixels stay on-device; language packs may load once from a CDN.
Page-by-page — large scans can take minutes on a phone; keep the tab open.
OCR the cleanest scan you have. Compressing first can hurt recognition.
Install the matching Tesseract language pack on first use when prompted.