OCR Converter — FAQ
Image-to-Text Converter — Frequently Asked Questions
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) converts images of text into actual editable text. It works on photos of documents, scanned pages, screenshots, and more.
9 languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Hindi, Marathi, Chinese Simplified, Japanese, and Arabic.
PNG, JPEG, BMP, WebP, GIF, TIFF, and PDF files.
TXT (plain text), DOCX (Word document), PDF (searchable PDF), HTML (web page), and JSON (structured data with confidence scores).
Accuracy depends on image quality. Clear, high-resolution images with good contrast produce the best results. Handwritten text is less accurate than printed text.
Yes! Upload a scanned PDF and the OCR engine will process each page, extracting text from the images.
All OCR processing happens in your browser using Tesseract.js. No images or text are sent to any server. The language data is downloaded once and cached locally.
On first use, Tesseract.js downloads the language data file (2-15MB depending on language). This is cached for future use.