PDF reading edition
Extract text from PDF pages, use local OCR when needed and create a new reading layout with adjustable fonts and spacing.
Features
- Extract existing text or run OCR on selected pages.
- Choose English, simplified Chinese or traditional Chinese OCR data.
- Reformat extracted text and export a reading PDF.
How to use this tool
- Choose a PDF, page ranges and a text-extraction mode.
- Select the OCR language when needed and process the document.
- Review the extracted text, adjust reading settings and export a PDF.
Good to know
This tool is free without sign-up, with unlimited processing and exports within the displayed input limits.
- The output is a new text layout; original columns, images and pagination are not preserved. OCR is limited to 20 pages per batch and may contain errors.
- The reading PDF uses embedded OpenDyslexic or Noto Sans CJK, which may differ from the preview font. Export is limited to 500 pages.
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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