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OCR: read text from a scanned PDF

Turns a picture of a document into text you can search, copy and paste.

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How to use it

  1. Choose a scanned PDF.
  2. Pick the language.
  3. Copy the recognised text or download it.

Questions

Which languages?

English, Korean, Japanese and Chinese (Simplified).

Does this one upload my file?

Yes — OCR is too heavy for a browser, so it runs on our server. The file is processed and returned, not kept.

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