PDF OCR & Organization
Read text from PDFs and scanned pages, rename files in batches and find identical PDFs. Review the results, then export renamed or searchable copies locally.
Features
- Read existing PDF text or use OCR for scanned pages; review and correct the recognized text page by page.
- Suggest filenames from dates, text and numbering, and flag files with identical bytes.
- Approve names and text, then download renamed copies or searchable PDFs, individually or as a ZIP.
How to use this tool
- Choose PDFs, set a naming template and select the OCR language. You can also try the sample documents.
- Start processing, review recognized text and duplicate flags, then confirm each filename and document.
- Choose renamed copies or searchable PDFs, prepare the approved files and download them.
Good to know
This advanced tool is included with Pro, or available using free account trials. Sign in to start. Only the first authorized export of a task uses a trial; previews and failed processing do not.
- Preview. OCR supports English and English with Simplified Chinese, up to 20 OCR pages per batch. Pages with fewer than 10 non-space characters use OCR; confidence is an estimate.
- Naming uses the original name, first non-empty line, numeric sequence and the first supported year-month-day date. Missing dates use undated. Duplicate detection compares bytes, not visual content.
- Text corrections update the invisible search layer; the original visible wording remains. Searchable exports rebuild OCR or edited pages as images with text at measured word positions. Corrections can replace words or merge/split them within a line. Page references, links, bookmarks and forms are retained; certificate signatures are invalidated by rewriting. Rename-only export preserves original bytes without embedding corrections.
- Only approved documents are exported, with unique ZIP names. The originals on your device are never renamed or moved.
Privacy and local processing
This tool processes your input in your browser. Source files and text are not uploaded to a FormatOwl processing server. Advanced-tool access and trial balances are checked online using tool IDs, file types, sizes and page counts. Free tools do not require account authorization. Save the results you need before leaving or refreshing the page.
Fonts and PDF resources load when needed. PDF text recognition can also download an OCR engine and language data from this site; your document stays in the browser.
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