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How to OCR a scanned PDF without creating an account

Make any scanned PDF searchable in under 60 seconds — no signup, no email, no credit card. Here's exactly how.

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If you've ever searched for "OCR PDF online" you know the drill: every result demands an email, a password, a credit card, or all three — just to make a 5-page document searchable.

You can skip all of that. Here's the shortest possible path to a searchable PDF, with no account anywhere.

The 60-second version

  1. Go to xrppdf.com.
  2. Drag your scanned PDF onto the upload area.
  3. Wait ~10–30 seconds.
  4. Click Download.

Done. No email, no signup, no card. Files auto-delete in 1 hour.

What's the catch?

The free trial is capped at 3 pages per file and a few files per day per IP. That's it.

If you need to OCR longer documents or process more files, you connect an XRP wallet, send a small amount of XRP (as little as ~$0.708 worth gets you 10 pages), and your credits never expire. No subscription. No card.

Why does the file get deleted automatically?

Because we don't want it. We're not a search engine, we're not a data broker, we don't train AI on your documents. The OCR engine reads the file, produces a searchable PDF, and the original is wiped from disk on a timer.

Specifically:

  • Trial uploads: deleted within 1 hour.
  • Trial output PDFs: deleted within 1 hour after delivery.
  • Paid uploads: deleted immediately after processing.
  • Paid output PDFs: deleted within 24 hours.

Our retention is enforced by a background worker that runs every 60 seconds — not a "we'll get to it eventually" policy.

What kind of PDFs work?

Any PDF that's a scan or photo of pages. Common cases:

  • Old invoices and receipts you photographed
  • Medical records on paper
  • Court filings and legal documents
  • Books and articles photographed page by page
  • Faxes and printed contracts

The output is a fully searchable PDF — the original page images are preserved exactly, with an invisible text layer behind them so you can Ctrl+F, copy/paste, and feed it into any search index.

What it doesn't do

  • It doesn't extract structured data (invoice line items, tables into Excel, etc.). We focus on making the text searchable, not parsing it.
  • It doesn't OCR images embedded in already-text PDFs. Run those as scans.
  • It doesn't translate. The output text stays in the original language.

Try it now

Go to xrppdf.com and drop a PDF on the box. You'll have a searchable version before you finish reading this paragraph.

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