Scanned PDF & Image to Word (OCR)
Turn a scanned PDF, a photo of a document or a screenshot into an editable Word document. OCR reads every page, wrapped lines are joined back into paragraphs and headings are kept, so you can edit straight away. Everything runs in your browser — your files are never uploaded.
Each PDF becomes its own Word file; images dropped together become one document, one page each — or paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V.
🔒 Processed on your device — nothing is uploaded. Up to 100 MB per file.
Convert Scans to Editable Word Documents
Retyping a scanned letter, a printed report or a photographed form takes ages. This free converter uses OCR (optical character recognition) to read the text on every page and builds a Word document (.docx) you can edit in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice or Pages. Unlike most online converters, it does the work inside your browser, so confidential paperwork stays on your computer.
How to convert a scanned PDF to Word
- Add your scan — drop a PDF, or several photos or screenshots of pages.
- Pick the language — 21 OCR languages including Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Urdu, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and the main European languages.
- Download the .docx — open it in Word or Google Docs and edit. A plain-text copy is available too.
What you get
- Real paragraphs. Lines that wrap on the page are joined back into flowing paragraphs, and words hyphenated at a line end are re-joined, so edits re-flow naturally. Choose Keep every line break for addresses, forms and poetry.
- Headings. Lines printed noticeably larger than the body text become Word headings, which also gives you a navigation pane outline.
- Page breaks. Each scanned page can start on a new Word page so the document lines up with the original.
- Optional page images. Include the original page picture above its text when you need to keep logos, signatures, stamps or photos alongside the editable text.
Limitations to know about
OCR recovers the text, not the exact visual design. Fonts, colours, columns, tables and images are not rebuilt — text from multi-column pages is placed column by column, and tables come out as lines of text (use Image to Excel for tables). Handwriting is not recognised reliably. If you only need to search or copy from the scan while keeping it as a PDF, OCR PDF is the better choice; for quick text from a single image, use Image to Text.
Tips for better results
- Use scans of 200–300 dpi, or photos taken straight-on in good light.
- Choose the language the document is written in; keep Text also contains English on for mixed documents.
- Proof-read numbers, names and look-alike characters (
0/O,1/l) before you rely on them.
Private by design
The PDF is rendered, recognised and assembled into a Word file entirely in your browser. No page, image or text is sent to SarvKit or a third party. The only downloads are the OCR engine, its language data and the Word-file library, which your browser caches.