Create searchable PDF online

Convert scanned documents to searchable PDFs. Search the content of your scans, documents, and PDFs with keywords, numbers, names, and more.

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What are searchable PDFs good for?

Digitizing your documents and running a digital office is not only good for the environment, it also saves a lot of time you usually spend searching through folders. However, many scans only contain images of the documents. These cannot be searched, except for the file name.

By making a scan searchable, an additional text layer is added to the scanned image, creating a so-called hybrid PDF. This text layer allows you to search for keywords, amounts and other numbers, names, or subjects inside the PDF.

How to make PDF text searchable

Upload your scan. It can be a document or an image.
Choose the document language from the list (optional).
Click "Start". After a short wait, your document will be ready.

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