Scanned PDFs are image files - copy-paste doesn't work, search returns nothing. Our online OCR processes scanned PDFs locally in your browser (using Tesseract.js) to extract text. 12 languages supported including English, Hindi, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese.
When to use this
Use for: extracting text from scanned contracts, processing scanned exam papers / question banks, digitizing old archived documents, extracting text from photographed government forms, processing camera-captured PDF receipts.
Frequently Asked Questions
How accurate is OCR?
Excellent for clear printed text (95-99% accuracy). Acceptable for newspaper-quality scans (~85-95%). Variable for handwriting (clear block letters work, cursive often fails).
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