What is OCR?

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the technology that converts images of typed or handwritten text into machine-encoded text. It's what allows you to search for words inside a scanned PDF.

The Magic of Free Online OCR

Historically, OCR required downloading massive desktop software packages like Adobe Acrobat. Now, thanks to Tesseract.js and WebAssembly, you can perform OCR directly in your browser!

Scan PDF to Text in Browser

Our Scanner AI Pro is evolving to include built-in OCR. This means you can:

Snap a photo of a document.
The browser automatically crops and flattens it.
The local OCR engine extracts the text instantly.
You copy the text to your clipboard without a single byte of data going to the cloud.

Try out our completely free, no-signup PDF and Web Tools today.