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Free OCR Tool Online - Extract Text from Images & PDFs

Optical Character Recognition in Your Browser

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) converts images of text into machine-readable text. Our tools use Tesseract.js, the JavaScript port of Google's Tesseract OCR engine, to extract text entirely in your browser without uploading images to any server.

Supported Input Types

Upload photos of documents, scanned pages, business cards, receipts, whiteboards, road signs, and any other image containing text. The OCR engine handles various fonts, sizes, orientations, and lighting conditions with good accuracy.

Language Support

Tesseract.js supports over 100 languages including Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, and more. Select the appropriate language for your document to improve recognition accuracy. Multi-language documents can be processed with combined language models.

Output Formats

Extracted text is returned as plain text for copying, or with bounding box information showing exactly where each word was detected. Export as plain text, formatted document, or structured JSON with word positions and confidence scores.

Privacy Benefits

Documents processed by online OCR services are typically uploaded to remote servers. Our browser-based approach keeps your documents local. This is especially important for sensitive documents like medical records, legal papers, and financial statements.

Frequently Asked Questions

English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hindi, and 100+ other languages via Tesseract.

The handwriting OCR tool handles printed-style handwriting reasonably well. Cursive and messy handwriting may have lower accuracy.

Yes. Upload a scanned PDF and the tool extracts text from each page using OCR. You can also create searchable PDFs from scans.

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