Can PDFtoMD OCR a scanned PDF?

Not in this free preview. Use OCR elsewhere, then paste plain text into the converter.

Are PDFs uploaded for OCR?

No. This preview does not upload your PDF for processing.

When a PDF Has No Text Layer

A scanned PDF is often just images of pages. Without a text layer, PDF.js cannot extract words to turn into Markdown.

How to tell

You cannot select text in a normal PDF reader.
The converter reports that no extractable text was found.

What this preview does

The free preview tells you when extraction failed. It does not run OCR in-browser. For scans, use an OCR tool you trust, then paste the resulting text into PDFtoMD’s Paste plain text path to get Markdown structure (headings, lists, paragraphs).