Free online OCR tools
OCR (optical character recognition) turns pictures of words into real text. Extract editable text from a photo or screenshot, or add a searchable text layer to a scanned PDF so you can search, select and copy its words. Both tools read English, Hindi or both.
Image to text
A picture of words, made editable.
Searchable PDF
Help your scans find their words.
OCR tools: common questions
A few answers to keep things simple.
What is OCR?+
Optical character recognition finds the letters in an image or scan and turns them into text you can edit, copy and search.
Does OCR work with Hindi?+
Yes. Choose Hindi for Devanagari text, or English + Hindi for documents that mix both languages.
Where are my files processed?+
Image to text work in your browser, so your files stay on your device. Searchable PDF upload files to an isolated conversion server only for the conversion; nothing is stored, and the server copy is deleted within 2 minutes at most.