Retype to PDF
Turn a page scan into a searchable PDF.
You have a photo or scan of printed text. You need a PDF you can copy, search, and edit — with every line break where it belongs. That is retype to PDF: real typing, not OCR.
Fully automated · no human reviewers
OCR vs retype to PDF
OCR outputs a blob of guessed text. Retype rebuilds your page as real type — line-faithful, selectable, searchable.
- Line breaks and hyphen splits preserved
- Bold, italic, and paragraph spacing carried through
- Tables and multi-column layout in reading order
- No hidden text layer behind a scan image
Who uses this?
Anyone who needs a typed PDF from a scan — not a rough OCR dump.
- Scanned books — one page at a time, or bulk on request
- Old photos of print — phone photos welcome
- Archives & backlists — when OCR quality is not enough
Need bulk pages? for high-volume processing.
Try one page free
Upload a single page image. Download your typed PDF in about a minute. No account required.