Standard PDF-to-Word converters extract text from real text layers - they return empty pages for scanned or image-only PDFs. This tool detects scanned pages automatically and runs OCR (Tesseract.js) so the output Word file contains the actual text, not a picture of it.
When to use this
Use when: a PDF returns blank or garbled text in other converters, when copy-paste from the PDF doesn't work, or when you need a Word file you can edit, search, and reformat from a scanned source.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is this different from regular PDF-to-Word?
Regular converters skip OCR - they only extract existing text layers. This tool auto-detects when a PDF page is scanned (image) and runs OCR so even camera-captured PDFs and screenshots return real, editable text.
Do I have to enable OCR manually?
OCR runs per-page on demand from the page preview panel. We don't auto-OCR the whole document because OCR is slow (10-30 seconds per page) and most users only need it for a few pages. Run it only on the pages that come up empty.
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