Turn a scanned PDF into a searchable document without sending it anywhere. Recognition runs inside your browser in English, Ukrainian or Russian.
Drop your PDF here — it opens instantly or click to choose a file · free to edit · $1 only when you downloadYou can OCR a PDF free in your browser with DollarFix PDF: it recognizes scanned pages in English, Ukrainian or Russian, straightens tilted scans, and embeds an invisible searchable text layer — the file is never uploaded. Download the result for a one-time $1.
Last updated: August 2026
A scanned PDF is really a stack of photographs. The words are visible to your eyes, but to the computer each page is just pixels — you cannot search it, copy a sentence from it, or click into a line to fix it. OCR (optical character recognition) reads those pixels and reconstructs the actual text. DollarFix PDF runs the whole recognition step inside your browser: the OCR engine is downloaded to your machine on demand, and your document never leaves it.
The result is an invisible text layer placed underneath the scanned image. Visually the page does not change at all — same stamps, same signatures, same slightly grey paper — but Ctrl+F suddenly finds things, text can be selected and copied, and the document becomes readable to indexing and accessibility tools. Before recognition starts, tilted pages are automatically straightened, which makes a real difference on scans taken with a phone camera.
Recognition here goes one step further than making the scan searchable: the recognized lines become clickable. Click one and you can retype it — under the hood the editor whites out the printed line and places your new text over it, matching the position of the original. It is a practical way to correct a date, a name or an amount on a scanned contract without rescanning anything.
OCR currently supports English, Ukrainian and Russian, and you can run it on as many pages and documents as you like. Recognition, searching and editing are all free; the only charge is a one-time $1 when you download the finished searchable PDF. There is no account to create, no subscription, and no daily quota — a 300-page scan is treated the same as a single receipt.