Read text from scans and photos
Drop scanned PDFs or images and get editable text back, all with free in-browser OCR. English language.
Honest note: OCR runs fully in your browser, so nothing is uploaded. Long documents can take a while, and accuracy depends on scan quality. Clean, straight, high-contrast scans give the best results.
Drop scanned PDFs or images here, or click to browse
PNG, JPG, or PDF. Multiple files welcome.
Queued files
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Frequently asked questions
Is my document uploaded anywhere?
No. OCR runs fully in your browser with Tesseract.js. Your scans never leave your device, which also means long documents can take a while on slower machines.
What files can I process?
PNG and JPG images, plus scanned PDFs. PDF pages are rendered at double resolution before recognition, which improves accuracy. Multiple files are queued and processed one after another.
How accurate is the text extraction?
Accuracy depends on scan quality. Clean, straight, high-contrast scans in English give the best results. Handwriting, skewed pages and low-resolution photos will have more errors.
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