Repair a corrupted PDF
Not guaranteed to be perfect — but it rebuilds a fresh, working PDF from whatever can be recovered, and tells you exactly how much.
1. Choose your damaged PDF
Won't open in your PDF viewer, gives an error, or looks broken? Try it here.
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Drop your PDF here or click to browse
Recover text with AI cleanup
When a page's original text can't be recovered, OCR reads it from the rendered page and AI fixes obvious misreads. Turn off to keep it 100% local, raw OCR only.
Disclaimer: this tool makes a best-effort attempt to recover a damaged
PDF — it does not guarantee complete or error-free recovery. Recovered pages are
re-rendered images, and any text recognized via OCR (with or without AI cleanup) can
contain misreads, especially on garbled or low-quality source material. Always visually
check the recovered file against what you expect before relying on it — don't treat it as
a certified, legally faithful copy of the original for contracts, IDs, financial records,
or other important documents. If the original file still exists somewhere (backup, email,
cloud storage), that's always a more reliable source than a repaired reconstruction.