OCR — Extract Text from Images and PDFs Free

Load an image or a PDF and get editable text via on-device OCR. Everything runs locally in your browser.

Quick answer: OCR online free: extract editable text from photos, scans and PDF pages using on-device recognition. No upload, no account — your document never leaves the browser.

Image or PDF

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How to use

Choose an image (JPG/PNG) or a scanned PDF.
Watch the progress bar — recognition runs on your device.
Copy the extracted text.

About this tool

Optical character recognition is how a photo of a notice, a scanned invoice or an image-only PDF becomes copyable text. This tool runs Tesseract's recognition engine inside your browser tab — the same open engine that powers many paid services — so your document is never sent to a third-party OCR server. Point it at a photo of printed text or a scanned PDF page and copy the result straight into an email or editor. Your file never leaves this page — everything runs in your browser, there is no upload endpoint on this site, and the document is dropped from memory when you close the tab.

FAQ

Is my document uploaded for OCR?

No. Your file never leaves this page — everything runs in your browser, there is no upload endpoint on this site, and the document is dropped from memory when you close the tab.

Which languages work?

English out of the box; the engine is the standard Tesseract LSTM model.

How good is the output?

Excellent on clean printed text; handwriting and blurry photos reduce accuracy.

Can it read image-only PDFs?

Yes — the first pages are rendered and recognised automatically.

Why is the first run slow?

The language model (~few MB) downloads once and is cached by your browser.

Can I copy the result?

Yes — one click copies all extracted text.

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