Recognise text (OCR)

Make scans searchable and turn them into text, Word or Excel.

Text recognition (OCR) reads the text in scans and photos. It runs in your browser; the first use downloads the recognition engine and language data.

Tools

Make a scanned PDF searchable and copyable. The pages look exactly the same.

Copy the text out of photos, screenshots and scans.

Turn scans and photos into an editable Word document.

Turn a photographed or scanned table into a spreadsheet.

To make a scanned PDF searchable, use OCR PDF. For plain text, use Image to Text; for an editable document, Scan to Word; for tables, Scan to Excel.