Make a scanned PDF searchable — without uploading it
Real OCR in your browser: the engine itself runs on your device.
OCR PDF now — free →Bindery ships the Tesseract OCR engine inside the app — about 7 MB that loads once, from Bindery itself, with no cloud service involved. It reads each scanned page and lays the recognized words invisibly on top of the untouched image, so your scan looks identical but becomes selectable and searchable in any PDF viewer. Prefer raw text? Get a .txt instead.
OCR is where privacy matters most — scans are usually contracts, IDs and records. With Bindery the pages are never transmitted anywhere: the recognition happens on your machine, full stop.
How it works
- Drop your scanned PDF and open OCR
- Choose searchable PDF or plain text output
- Download — pages look identical, text is now selectable
Questions people ask
Which languages are supported?
English today, with more language packs on the roadmap. Recognition quality is strongest on clean, straight scans.
Does OCR change how my scan looks?
No. The searchable-PDF output keeps every page pixel-identical and adds an invisible text layer on top for selecting and searching.
Is my scan sent to a cloud OCR service?
No — this is the rare OCR tool that runs entirely in your browser. The engine is part of the app itself.