OCR (Optical Character Recognition) reads text from images or scanned pages and converts it into machine-readable text that can be selected, copied, and searched.

Does OCR work on photos of documents taken with a phone?

Yes, OCR works on phone photos as well as scanned documents. Better photo quality (good lighting, minimal blur) produces more accurate results.

What languages are supported?

Our OCR engine supports English, Hindi, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Arabic, and many more languages.

How accurate is the OCR?

Accuracy depends on the quality of the original scan. Clean, high-resolution scans typically achieve 95%+ accuracy. Handwritten text is not currently supported.

Is the OCR tool free?

Yes, OCR processing is completely free on ApnaConverter.

OCR – Scan to Text

Extract text from scanned PDFs or images using optical character recognition.

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Drop PDF or image here

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Output Format

Scanned documents and image-based PDFs contain text that you cannot search, copy, or index. Our OCR tool uses optical character recognition to extract the full text layer, making scanned content fully searchable and copyable. Supports multiple languages and outputs a searchable PDF or a plain text file.

How It Works

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Upload Scanned PDF

Upload a scanned PDF or image-based document.

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OCR Processing

Optical Character Recognition extracts all text from the images.

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Download Text PDF

Get a searchable, copy-able PDF with all text extracted.

Why Use This Tool?

✓Extract text from scanned PDFs and images
✓Makes scanned documents searchable and copy-able
✓Supports multiple languages for text recognition
✓Ideal for digitising printed documents and archives
✓Convert paper records to editable digital text
✓Files are auto-deleted after 2 hours