Scanned PDF to Text (OCR)

FloxerFile reads a scanned PDF page by page using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and gives you a plain .txt file back. Unlike a regular PDF, a scanned document has no underlying text layer — it's really just a picture of a page — so this tool recognizes the text visually instead of extracting it directly. No software, no sign-up, just upload and download.

How it works

1. 1

   Upload your scanned PDF

   Drag and drop your scanned PDF, or click to browse. Files up to 20 MB are supported.

2. 2

   We read each page

   Each page is rendered as an image and scanned with OCR to recognize the text it contains, in English or French.

3. 3

   Download your text

   Download the recognized text as a single .txt file, ready to copy, search, or edit.

Features

• Every page rendered at 3x scale

  Each PDF page is rendered to a high-resolution image before OCR — a real accuracy improvement for small or dense text over a lower-resolution render.

• Genuine character recognition, page by page

  Text is recognized with Tesseract, a genuine optical character recognition engine, page by page.

• Both languages checked on every page at once

  Both languages are loaded and checked on every page, so mixed-language documents are handled without picking a language upfront.

• Blank or unreadable pages are skipped, not fatal

  If a specific page yields no confident text, it's simply left out of the result — the whole conversion only fails if every page comes back empty.

Supported formats

Output format: .txt

Frequently asked questions

Which PDFs work best?

Clean, high-resolution scans with clear, printed text at a normal size. Skewed, blurry, very low-resolution, or handwritten scans will produce more errors or get filtered out.

Does this work on a PDF that already has a text layer?

It will still work, but it's built for image-only scans — if your PDF already has selectable text, a plain text-extraction tool would be faster and more accurate.

What happens if some pages have no readable text?

Those pages are simply skipped in the output — the conversion only fails entirely if none of the pages produce any recognizable text.

Can it recognize text in more than one language per document?

English and French are both recognized automatically on every page — there's no language picker because both are checked together.

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