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Text locked in a picture, set free.

A photographed page, a screenshot, a scanned contract. Read the characters back out as text you can search, copy and edit, with the columns and tables still in the shape they were printed in.

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Reading the text in an image

Turn a photo, a screenshot or a scanned PDF into text you can search, copy and edit, with its tables and columns kept in shape. Copy it out, or download it as TXT, DOCX or a searchable PDF.

Why this one

What separates a good read from a bad one.

  • Tables stay tables

    Rows and columns come back as structure rather than one run-on line, which is the difference between usable data and retyping it.

  • Past the Latin alphabet

    Scripts with their own shapes and reading order are recognised on their own terms instead of being forced through an English model.

  • Reading order you can follow

    Headings, paragraphs and column flow are kept, so a two-column page does not come back interleaved.

How it works

How the ocr reader works.

  1. 01

    Add a scan or photo

    A photographed page, a screenshot or a PDF of a scanned document.

  2. 02

    Text is read off the page

    Layout is followed, so columns, tables and reading order survive rather than collapsing into one run of words.

  3. 03

    Take the text

    Copy it straight out, or download as TXT, DOCX or a searchable PDF.

Accepts
JPG · PNG · PDF · TIFF
Output
TXT · DOCX · searchable PDF
Languages
100+
Max input
50 MB

Before you upload

What happens to your file.

What it costs, what the limits are, and what we do with the thing you hand over.

A searchable PDF keeps the original page
The scan stays exactly as it looks and the recognised text is laid invisibly on top, so the document is selectable and findable without being redrawn.
Photograph quality decides accuracy
Even lighting and a page shot square-on read almost perfectly. Skew, shadow and low resolution are what produce mistakes, not the language.
Your file is deleted when you are done
The upload is removed once your download finishes. It is not kept, not indexed, and never used to train anything.
No account, no watermark
One file at a time needs no signup at all, and nothing that comes out is marked. An account only adds batches, merging and history.

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