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OCR PDF

Extract text from scanned PDFs and images using AI. Works on handwriting too.

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Supports PDF, JPG, PNG — works on scans, typed text, and handwriting. Unclear words are marked, never guessed.

🔒Your files are automatically deleted after processing and are never shared with third parties.
🔒Your files are automatically deleted after processing and are never shared with third parties.
📖Guide: What Is OCR and When Do You Actually Need It→

Supported Formats

PDF, JPG, or PNG in — copy text or download as .txt.

Common Uses

•Making an old scanned document's text searchable and copyable
•Extracting text from a handwritten note or journal page
•Digitizing a printed article or book page into editable text
•Pulling text out of a screenshot for reuse elsewhere

💡 Pro Tip

If your document mixes typed and handwritten text (like a filled-in form), OCR PDF reads both in the same pass — review the handwritten portions a little more carefully, since handwriting recognition is inherently less certain than typed text.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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📖OCR PDF Guide

Extracts text from scanned PDFs and images using AI — including typed text and handwriting — while clearly flagging anything it isn't confident about instead of guessing.

When to use this

Use this when you have a scanned document, a photo of a page, or a handwritten note and need the actual text out of it — not just a picture of text, but text you can copy, search, and edit.

Step-by-step workflow

  1. 1Upload your PDF or image Drop in a scanned PDF, JPG, or PNG.
  2. 2Extract text AI reads the document, including handwriting where present.
  3. 3Review the result Any word or phrase the AI wasn't confident about is marked as [UNREADABLE] rather than guessed at — check these spots against the original.
  4. 4Copy or download Copy the extracted text or download it as a .txt file.

Tips for best results

  • ✓For genuinely messy handwriting, expect some [UNREADABLE] markers — that's the tool being honest rather than inventing plausible-sounding text.
  • ✓A higher-resolution scan or photo gives the AI more to work with and reduces how much comes back unreadable.
  • ✓If the extracted text needs to become an editable Word document with formatting, run it through PDF to Word afterward.

Common mistakes to avoid

  • ⚠Assuming every word in the output is accurate — always check text marked [UNREADABLE], and spot-check important numbers or names even outside those markers.
  • ⚠Uploading a very low-resolution or blurry photo and expecting clean results — image quality directly affects accuracy.
  • ⚠Using this when you actually need a formatted, editable document rather than plain extracted text — PDF to Word is built for that.

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