Local PDF Extractor

Settings

Accuracy

Max accuracy is slower but renders at higher DPI and uses angle correction.

Language

Advanced preprocessing

Preprocessing

Deskew, contrast-boost & denoise before OCR. Best left on.

Binarize

Force black-and-white. Helps some clean/high-contrast scans; usually leave off (grayscale is more accurate on most documents).

Force OCR

Re-read every page as an image, even pages that already have selectable text. Use only when the embedded text is wrong/garbled, or text is trapped inside images. Slower; off by default.

Remove headers & footers

Strip repeating page headers, footers & page numbers from multi-page documents (3+ pages). On by default; turn off to keep every line exactly as on the page.

Handwriting & online OCR

Handwriting (local) beta

Read handwritten pages with a local model (English, ~73% on real cursive). Much slower; first use downloads a model once. For far better handwriting, use Online Gemini below instead — you don't need both.

Online vision OCR (Gemini)

Far higher accuracy on handwriting & hard scans, via Google Gemini. Sends your page images to Google — off by default. Needs a free API key.

Drop your PDF here

or browse files · multiple files supported

Samples 1–2 pages of a file and recommends settings · can take up to a minute on the CPU · nothing is applied until you click Apply.