What is PDF OCR?
Recognizes characters (OCR) in scanned PDFs or photos where the text exists only as an image. It supports English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Korean, and recognition happens inside your browser.
How to use
- 1
Choose a scanned PDF or an image.
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Pick the languages to recognize and the page range.
- 3
Press “Start recognition” and copy the resulting text.
Use cases
Digitizing paper documents
Turn the wording of a scanned contract into text.
Text in photos
Transcribe what's written on a whiteboard photo.
FAQ
How accurate is it?+
Clean printed documents are recognized very accurately, but handwriting or blurry photos may have a lower recognition rate.
Are my files uploaded to a server?+
No. Everything is processed in your browser and files are never uploaded anywhere.