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PDF OCR
Extract text from scanned PDFs or photos of documents — runs Tesseract OCR entirely on your device.
Drop a scanned PDF or image here, or click to choose
PDF, JPG or PNG — first run may take a moment to load the OCR engine
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Processed locally in your browser. Your files are never uploaded to any server.
Frequently asked questions
How accurate is browser-based OCR?
Tesseract OCR (the same open-source engine behind many OCR tools) runs entirely on your device. Accuracy is good on clean, well-lit scans and typed text; it struggles with handwriting, skewed pages, or low-resolution photos.
Does this work on multi-page PDFs?
Yes — each page is processed in sequence and the results are combined into one text file.
Why is the first run slow?
The OCR engine (a few MB of WebAssembly and trained-language data) downloads once per session the first time you use it, then runs locally from there.