Scans are just pictures of text — you can't search or copy them. pixelpix runs OCR (Tesseract) locally and stamps an invisible text layer at exactly the word positions, so the document looks identical but becomes searchable, selectable and copyable.
Pages that already have real text are skipped automatically, and nothing is ever uploaded — scanned documents are usually the private kind.
Scans are just pictures of text — you cannot search or copy them. pixelpix runs OCR (Tesseract) locally and stamps an invisible text layer at exactly the word positions, so the document looks identical but becomes searchable, selectable and copyable. Pages that already have real text are skipped automatically.
Like every pixelpix tool, this runs 100% in your browser: your file is never uploaded to a server, never leaves your device, and works even offline once the page has loaded.
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