Different from regular Extract Text?

Yes — regular Extract Text only works on PDFs with a text layer. This one OCRs scanned PDFs first, then extracts.

Tesseract OCR — 95-99% on clean scans, much lower on handwriting or low-DPI files.

Are my files private?

Files are encrypted in transit (TLS 1.3) and at rest, then auto-deleted within one hour.

Tool 26/scanned → plain text

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Different from regular Extract Text?: Yes — regular Extract Text only works on PDFs with a text layer. This one OCRs scanned PDFs first, then extracts.
How accurate is it?: Tesseract OCR — 95-99% on clean scans, much lower on handwriting or low-DPI files.
Are my files private?: Files are encrypted in transit (TLS 1.3) and at rest, then auto-deleted within one hour.

OCR PDF

Add text layer instead of plain extract

Extract Text

Plain extract on born-digital PDFs

Image to Text

OCR single images