Is 18PDF really free?

Yes. All 18 tools are free to use, with no signup, no file size limit, and no watermarks on output.

Are my files uploaded to a server?

No. Every operation runs entirely in your browser using WebAssembly. Your files never leave your device.

No. There is no signup, no login, and no tracking. Open the tool and start working immediately.

There are no artificial limits. The only constraint is the memory of your device, since processing happens locally.

English is supported out of the box. The engine is the standard tesseract.js worker.

About 1 to 3 seconds per page on a modern laptop, depending on page size and complexity.

Recognize text from scanned PDFs

⚠️ OCR downloads ~15MB of language data on first use. Subsequent runs are cached.

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