Make Scanned PDFs Editable — Free OCR Online
Upload a scanned PDF or a photo of a document and edit the text directly in your browser.
- The document's own fonts
- The page reflows around your edits
- Redaction that really removes
The honest diff
One line, edited three ways.
The name “Acme Inc” becomes “Nordea AB” on an invoice line. Most online editors rebuild the line in a substitute font — so it grows, shifts and stops looking like the rest of the page. Acropea writes it in the font the document already uses.
What changed
Everything other editors get wrong.
| Elsewhere | Acropea |
|---|---|
| The same font, extracted from the PDF | |
| Layout preserved exactly as in the original | |
| AI that finds and edits every matching instance | |
| OCR turns scanned pages into a live text layer | |
| Redaction that's verified truly un-extractable | |
| Fill boxes, tick and sign — in the browser | |
| Editor in 25+ languages | |
| PDF, Word, JPEG, PNG, WebP, TIFF, BMP, HEIC | |
| Core editing is free — no account required | |
| Say what should change — hands-free | |
| The page reflows — nothing lands on anything |
AI that edits
Say what should change. It changes.
Most AI tools read your PDF and answer questions about it. Acropea's AI edits it — every matching place, on every page, in the page's own font.
What's the point of AI that can summarize your document but can't change a word in it?
Voice editing
No hands. Just say it.
Tap the microphone and talk to your document: change a date, make a heading bold, move a block, translate a page. Acropea does it — and can read the answer back to you.
Editing a PDF without touching the mouse.
Reflow
Text grows. The page makes room.
Add a sentence and everything below moves down by exactly that much — tables, images and all. Drag a block and the others step aside. Nothing ever lands on top of anything else, and if a page runs full, Acropea offers to fit it or add a page.
Scanned documents
Scanned PDFs. Finally editable.
Most editors give up on scanned documents. Acropea turns them into a fully editable text layer — same editor, same flow. No separate OCR service, no copy-paste into Word.
Redaction that holds up
A black box isn't redaction.
Most "redaction" just draws a box over text that's still sitting in the file — copy, paste, and it's back. Acropea removes the underlying text and verifies it can't be extracted. Mask names, emails and personal ID numbers with proof.
If it can be copied back out, it was never redacted.
Common questions
Simple pricing
Start for free. Upgrade when you need more.
Core editing with no sign-up required.
- ✓10 uploads per day
- ✓20 AI edits per day
- ✓5 AI classifications per day
- ✓PDF & image editing
- ✓All file formats (PDF, JPEG, PNG, WebP, TIFF, BMP, HEIC)
- ✓Font extraction
- ✓Scanned PDFs (OCR)
Unlimited access to all AI features.
- ✓Unlimited uploads
- ✓Unlimited AI edits
- ✓Unlimited AI classifications
- ✓PDF & image editing
- ✓All file formats (PDF, JPEG, PNG, WebP, TIFF, BMP, HEIC)
- ✓Font extraction
- ✓Scanned PDFs (OCR)
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