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OCR / Text Extractor

A genuinely unlimited, browser-based OCR tool. Most free online OCR services throttle hard (15 pages/hour, 50 pages/month) or exist to funnel you toward a paid plan; the only truly unlimited free option has been raw Tesseract on the command line, which shuts out anyone who isn't comfortable with a terminal. This tool runs the same Tesseract engine as WebAssembly directly in your browser, so there's no page cap, no daily limit, and no account — and because the recognition happens on your device, the image or PDF you're reading text out of is never uploaded anywhere.

Unlimited, and nothing leaves your browser

No page limit, no file limit, no signup. OCR runs as WebAssembly on your device — your image or PDF is never uploaded.

Drop images or PDFs here, or click to browse

JPG, PNG, WEBP, HEIC · Scanned or multi-page PDFs · Select multiple files

Or paste an image with Ctrl+V / Cmd+V

What This Tool Does (and Doesn't)

Built for print text, not everything OCR could theoretically mean

Good at

• Clean, printed text — documents, screenshots, signs, book pages
• Multi-page scanned PDFs, page by page
• Slightly rotated or skewed photos of text
• Six languages, with more useful ones easy to add later

Not built for (yet)

• Handwriting — Tesseract is a print-text engine
• Tables, forms, or invoices as structured data — plain text only
• Very blurry or low-resolution scans (we'll flag these, not hide it)
• A server-side fallback for the above — if it can't read it locally, it says so

Features

Everything a genuinely unlimited OCR tool needs, nothing it doesn't

No Page Limit

Batch as many pages as your browser can hold

No Signup

Nothing to create, nothing to remember

Live Output

Text appears per page, not after the whole batch

Confidence Hints

Low-confidence pages are flagged, not hidden

6 Languages

English, Spanish, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese

Privacy First

100% browser-based, nothing uploaded

Supported Formats

Images and PDFs, single files or a batch

JPG / PNG

Standard photo and screenshot formats

WEBP

Modern web image format

HEIC / HEIF

iPhone photo format, converted on-device

PDF

Multi-page and scanned documents, page by page

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about extracting text with this tool

Is there really no page or file limit?

Correct — no page cap, no file-count cap, no daily limit, and no signup wall. Every free OCR service we could find throttles hard (15 pages/hour, 50 pages/month) or uses the free tier to funnel you toward a paid plan. Because this runs entirely on your own device instead of a server, there's no per-request cost to us, so there's nothing to ration.

Does my image or PDF get uploaded anywhere?

No. The OCR engine (Tesseract.js) runs as WebAssembly directly in your browser tab. Your file is read locally, rendered to a canvas locally, and recognized locally — it's never sent to a server. You can confirm this yourself by checking your browser's Network tab while running a scan.

How accurate is it?

It's built on Tesseract, the same open-source engine used by many commercial OCR products, and it does well on clean, printed text — a scanned document, a screenshot, a photo of a sign. It struggles with handwriting (which isn't a goal for this tool), heavily skewed or very low-resolution photos, and unusual fonts. When a page's confidence score comes back low, we tell you rather than silently handing you garbled text.

Can it read handwriting or extract tables/forms?

Not in this version. Tesseract is a print-text engine, not a handwriting-recognition model, and this tool outputs plain text only — it doesn't reconstruct tables, form fields, or other structured layouts. If you need either of those, this isn't the right tool yet.

Why does it need to download a language file the first time?

Tesseract's recognition model for each language (its "trained data") is a real file, typically a few megabytes, that has to be fetched once and is then cached by your browser for next time. That download is the model itself, not your document — your image or PDF never leaves your device at any point.

Getting Good Results

How OCR works and how to get the most out of it

What OCR actually does

Optical Character Recognition looks at the pixels in an image and identifies which shapes correspond to which letters and numbers, then reconstructs them as selectable, searchable text — turning a photo of a page into something you can copy, search, or edit.

Getting a better scan

Straight-on, well-lit, high-resolution photos of printed text recognize far better than angled, blurry, or low-light ones. Tesseract has some built-in tolerance for a slight skew or rotation, but a document scanner app or a flatbed scan will consistently beat a quick phone photo.

Reading the confidence score

Every page comes back with a confidence score from Tesseract itself. A low score usually means the source image was blurry, low-resolution, or used a font/layout the model struggles with — it's a signal to double-check that page rather than copy-paste it blindly.

Why this is unlimited when others aren't

Hosted OCR services pay for server compute on every page you process, so free tiers get capped to control that cost. This tool runs the recognition on your own device's CPU instead — there's no per-page server cost to us, so there's no reason to cap it.

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