Read text out of an image or scan
Text recognition runs on your device using a WebAssembly build of Tesseract. The picture never leaves your browser; only the language model is downloaded, once.
Read text from a file (OCR)
Uses creditsPull the words out of a photo, screenshot or scanned PDF.
Drop your file here
or browse from your device
images or PDF · up to 200 MB
Runs on your device
Steps
How to ocr — extract text from images and scans
- 1Drop in a photo, screenshot or scanned PDF.
- 2Pick the language of the text.
- 3Copy the result, or download it as a text or Word file.
Questions
Common questions
Very good on clean, straight, reasonably sized text. Poor on handwriting, heavy skew or low resolution. The result shows a confidence score, and warns you when it was struggling.
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