🔍 OCR · Images & PDFs · AI-Powered

Extract Text from Any Image or PDF

Receipts, screenshots, scanned documents, handwriting, PDFs — instantly converted to editable text. 1 free scan/day, no sign-up.

No credit card · No account required

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Click or drag & drop

Images (JPG, PNG, WEBP) or PDF · max 5MB

1 free scan/day · No sign-up required

Extracted Text
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Extracted text will appear here

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How It Works

Three steps to digital text

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Upload your file

Drag & drop or click to upload an image (JPG, PNG, WEBP) or PDF. No sign-up needed.

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One click extract

Our AI reads your file and returns all detected text in seconds.

3

Copy or download

Copy the extracted text or download it as a .txt file. Done.

Use Cases

Works for every file type

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Receipts & Invoices

Extract itemized costs, totals, and merchant info from receipt photos.

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Screenshots

Pull text from screenshots of apps, websites, or screens you cannot copy.

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PDF Documents

Extract text from PDF files — contracts, reports, and scanned documents.

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Handwritten Notes

Digitize handwritten meeting notes, lecture notes, or journal entries.

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Book Pages

Photograph a page from a book or magazine and get clean, copyable text.

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Signs & Labels

Extract text from product labels, menus, whiteboards, or street signs.

Why AI-Powered OCR

Far beyond traditional OCR

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97-99% accuracy

Outperforms Tesseract and most cloud OCR on complex layouts, tables, and mixed content.

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Images + PDFs

Works with JPG, PNG, WEBP, GIF images and PDF documents. One tool for everything.

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100+ languages

Auto-detects the language in your image. Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Cyrillic — all supported.

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Handwriting recognition

AI vision handles handwritten text better than traditional OCR engines.

Instant results

No upload queues, no waiting. Text extraction happens in 2-5 seconds.

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Private & secure

Images are not stored. Your files are processed and immediately discarded.

FAQ

Common questions

Which file formats are supported?

JPG, PNG, WEBP, GIF images and PDF documents. Max file size is 5MB.

Can it read PDFs?

Yes — the free tool extracts embedded text from PDFs. For scanned/image-only PDFs, sign up and use the dashboard OCR which uses AI to handle any PDF.

How accurate is it?

Our AI achieves ~97-99% accuracy on clearly printed text. Blurry or very low-resolution images will have lower accuracy.

Can it read handwriting?

Yes — our AI handles handwritten text significantly better than traditional OCR engines.

How many free scans?

1 free scan per day without signing up. Signed-up users get more generous limits and paid plans use 3 credits per scan.

Is my file stored?

No. Files are sent to OpenAI for processing only and are not stored anywhere.

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