OCR Text Recognition
Recognize English text (letters, digits, symbols) from scanned PDFs and images using AI (DBNet+CRNN). Japanese, Chinese, and other scripts are not supported. All processing happens in your browser — no data is sent to any server.
Drop an image or PDF, or click to select
Supported formats: image/*,application/pdf,.pdf · Max size: 100MB
Japanese text recognition is not supported (English only)In-browser AI cannot yet recognize Japanese accurately enough to meet our quality bar, so we keep this tool English-only rather than return unreliable results. To pull out Japanese text already embedded in a PDF, use the Text Extraction tool instead.Open Text Extraction →
Chrome / Edge is recommended.
You can also paste an image from your clipboard with Ctrl+V
How to use
Drag & drop a scanned PDF or image
AI detects text regions and recognizes the text (English only)
Copy the result or save it as text
Frequently asked questions
- Can it recognize Japanese?
- No — English only. In-browser AI models cannot yet recognize Japanese accurately enough to meet our quality bar, so rather than return unreliable results we keep this tool English-only. If the Japanese text is already embedded in the PDF, use the PDF Text Extraction tool. For scanned Japanese documents, consider on-device OS features such as iOS Live Text.
- Which browsers are supported?
- Because the AI runs in your browser, Chrome or Edge is recommended. Images are never uploaded.