Extract text from scanned PDFs and photos of documents, in 18 languages.
Turn scanned documents, screenshots and photos of pages into editable text. Choose the document’s language for the best accuracy, then copy the text or download it.
Recognition runs in your browser using the open-source Tesseract engine. The engine and language files are downloaded the first time you use a language; your document stays on your device.
Very good on clear, straight, well-lit printed text. Handwriting, low-resolution scans and unusual fonts are much harder — always proofread.
The OCR engine and language data (a few megabytes) download on first use and are then cached by your browser.
No. The PDF is processed by your browser on your own device and never leaves it. Closing the page discards everything.