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OCR — Image & Scanned PDF to Text

Recognise text in scanned PDFs and photos with OCR.

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About OCR — Image & Scanned PDF to Text

Optical character recognition turns scans and photos of documents into text you can search, copy and edit. Choose the document language for the best accuracy; multi-page PDFs are recognised page by page.

How it works

  1. 1

    Drop a scanned PDF or a photo of a document.

  2. 2

    Choose the language of the document.

  3. 3

    Download the recognised text as a .txt file.

Frequently asked questions

How accurate is OCR?

Clean scans at 300 DPI typically reach 98%+ character accuracy. Blurry photos, handwriting and unusual fonts reduce accuracy.

My PDF already has text — do I need OCR?

No. Use PDF to Text, which is faster and exact.