Free French PDF OCR — Extract Text from Scanned French PDFs
Scanned French documents — invoices, letters, book pages — hide their text inside images. This tool reads them with French-trained OCR (Tesseract.js) entirely in your browser, page by page, and gives you copyable text. Your files are never uploaded anywhere.
French PDF OCR
Extract French text from scanned PDFs & images — accents included, in your browser.
100% Free Forever
No Sign-up
No Credit Card
Private — files never leave your browser
Unlimited Use
1 Add your French PDF or image
Drag & drop your PDF or image hereor click to browse — PDF, PNG, JPG, WebP · one file at a time
2 OCR settings
Higher scale reads small print better but runs slower.
Clean up extra spaces & blank lines
Tidies OCR output without changing the words.
3 Run French OCR & copy the text
Working…
✅ Done — extracted French text
How it works
- Step 1 — Drop in a scanned French PDF or image (one file at a time).
- Step 2 — Pick how many pages to OCR and the render scale.
- Step 3 — Tesseract.js loads once with the French (
fra) language data, reads each page, and returns copyable text with accents (é, è, ç, ê) preserved.
Your files never leave your browser — OCR runs locally, so private letters and invoices stay private.
Everyday uses
- Students — turn scanned French textbook pages into searchable notes.
- Freelancers — extract text from French client invoices and contracts.
- Researchers — digitize French archival documents for quoting and translation.
- Expats — read French administrative letters by copying the text into a translator.