OCR — Text Recognition

Extract text from images and scanned PDF documents using optical character recognition.

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What This Tool Does

Extract text from images and scanned PDF documents using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Our Tesseract-powered engine supports English, Arabic, and French text recognition with high accuracy.

How to Use It

  1. Choose the source type: Image or PDF.
  2. Upload your file.
  3. Select the OCR language (English, Arabic, or French).
  4. Click Extract Text and copy the result.

Why Use Our OCR — Text Recognition?

  • Supports English, Arabic, and French
  • Works with images and scanned PDFs
  • High accuracy with Tesseract OCR engine
  • Copy extracted text with one click
  • Free with no signup needed

Common Use Cases

  • Digitizing scanned paper documents
  • Extracting text from screenshots
  • Converting image-based PDFs to searchable text
  • Transcribing text from photos
  • Extracting data from receipts or invoices

Frequently Asked Questions

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is a technology that converts images of text into editable, searchable text data.

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