OCR · Beta
OCR
Read text from images and scanned PDFs on your device. Nothing uploaded.
Nothing to install: just open it in the browser on your phone, tablet or computer. It keeps working without internet after your first visit. Want an icon on your home screen? On iPhone or iPad, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. On Android, open the browser menu and tap Add to Home screen. On a computer, click the install icon in the address bar.
OCR has these main features: Every page of a PDF, read at 200 dpi; Boxes on the page, and the text editable before you save. It opens Any image, PDF.
Beta: still being tested, so some parts may change.
What you can do with OCR
How OCR compares
OCR next to Google Drive, OnlineOCR.net, i2OCR, Tesseract: facts from each tool's own pages, checked 2026-10-24. We make OCR.
| Tool | Price | Free limits | Languages | Files processed on | Account or install |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OCR ours | Free | None set by us | 85, one model per script (Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi and more) | Your device | No account; a 13 to 26 MB model per script downloads once |
| Google Drive | Included in Google Drive | Files of 2 MB or smaller | Many; detected automatically | Google Drive | Google account |
| OnlineOCR.net | Free for guests; paid plans | 5 files an hour as a guest, 15 MB per file | 46 | OnlineOCR servers (guest files deleted after conversion) | None for guests |
| i2OCR | Free; premium bulk OCR | One image or PDF page at a time | 128 | i2OCR servers (files deleted after processing) | No install; account not stated |
| Tesseract | Free, open source (Apache 2.0) | None | 100+ | Your computer | Install; command line |
| Feature | OCR ours | Google Drive | OnlineOCR.net | i2OCR | Tesseract |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Photos and screenshots | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Scanned PDFs | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Many pages in one go | Yes | Yes | Partly | Partly | Yes |
| Languages | 85 | Many | 46 | 128 | 100+ |
| Plain text | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Word (DOCX) | Yes | Not stated | Yes | Yes | No |
| Searchable PDF | Yes | Not stated | Not stated | Yes | Yes |
| Fix the text before saving | Yes | Yes | Not stated | Not stated | No |
| Boxes on the page for each line | Yes | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated |
| Free file size | Device memory | 2 MB | 15 MB | Not stated | Not stated |
| Free use without a cap | Yes | Not stated | No | Partly | Yes |
| No account needed | Yes | No | Yes | Not stated | Yes |
| Nothing to install | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Scan stays on your device | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
The full comparison, with sources: The best free OCR tools for images and scans, compared
Feature matrix
| Feature | Status | File types |
|---|---|---|
| Every page of a PDF, read at 200 dpi | Beta | Any image, PDF |
| Boxes on the page, and the text editable before you save | Beta | Any image, PDF |
| Copy, .txt, .md, Word or a searchable PDF | Beta | Any image, PDF |
| 85 languages, one model per script, on your device | Beta | Any image, PDF |
File types
OCR opens Any image, PDF.
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