Free OCR Tool — Extract Text from Images & PDFs Online
Convert scanned documents, photos, and PDFs to selectable text using Tesseract.js. Runs entirely in your browser — no files uploaded, supports 100+ languages.
Features
100+ Languages
Tesseract supports over 100 languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Arabic, and many more.
Local Processing
All OCR computation runs in your browser. Your documents are never sent to any server.
Images & PDFs
Upload scanned PDFs, photos of documents, screenshots, or any image with text in it.
How It Works
Drag and drop an image (JPEG, PNG, WebP) or a scanned PDF.
Choose the language of the text in your document for the best accuracy.
Tesseract processes the image in your browser. This may take a few seconds for large files.
The extracted text appears in a text area. Select all and copy, or download as a .txt file.
Frequently Asked Questions
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