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Free OCR Online — Nothing Leaves Your Device

A general-purpose OCR that accepts both images and PDFs and reads them entirely inside your browser — the file you drop is never uploaded to any server. It handles English and Hindi (including both on one page), preprocesses photos automatically for accuracy, and after the one-time engine download it typically keeps working even without a connection.

  • No upload — files stay on your device
  • Works offline once loaded
  • Free forever, no signup, no watermark
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Indian documents often mix scripts — pick Hindi + English for those.

Your file is read entirely on this device — it is never uploaded. The only download is the open-source Tesseract OCR engine itself (worker, core and language data), fetched once from a CDN after you click, then cached. Printed text reads reliably; handwriting mostly does not, and a blurry or skewed photo will disappoint — retaking the picture flat-on beats any setting here.

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One-time download — after this the engine is cached, and your file still never leaves the device.

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Blue boxes are confident words; amber ones are guesses worth checking.

How to use this tool

  1. Drop an image or a PDF

    Screenshots, photos of pages, and scanned PDFs are all accepted — PDFs are rendered page by page on your device.

  2. Choose language and layout

    English, Hindi or both; and if the automatic layout guesses wrong, pick single block, single line or sparse text — the tool explains when each helps.

  3. Run the OCR and take the text

    The first run fetches the engine once. Then copy the text, download it as .txt, and check flagged low-confidence words against the boxed preview.

Questions people ask

What can this OCR read?

Printed text, reliably: documents, books, screenshots, receipts, signs. Handwriting is the honest exception — no in-browser OCR reads it dependably, and we say that up front instead of overselling.

Is this OCR really private?

Yes — this is the reason to use it. Recognition runs in your browser's memory; the site has no upload endpoint. The only network activity is the one-time engine download, which contains no data of yours.

Does it work offline?

After the engine and language data have been downloaded once and cached, recognition itself needs no connection — the work is all local. The very first run does need internet for that engine download.

What are the layout modes for?

OCR first has to decide where the text sits. Auto suits most pages; "single block" helps when a paragraph comes out scrambled; "single line" is for a cropped strip; "sparse text" is for cards, labels and screenshots where text is scattered.

Can it read a scanned PDF?

Yes — drop the PDF and every page is rendered and recognized in sequence with per-page progress, the results joined with page separators. For a born-digital PDF with real text inside, our PDF to Text tool is instant and exact — no OCR needed.

My scan is skewed — will it still work?

Mild tilt usually survives; a strongly skewed or curved page will lose accuracy, and this tool does not deskew — we would rather tell you that than pretend. Re-scanning flat, or re-photographing straight-on, is the reliable fix.

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Free because it costs us nothing to run: your browser does the work, not our servers. Made by Dynamb Technologies — we build software for businesses.