Online OCR – How to use it
The OCR.space Online OCR service converts scans or (smartphone) images of text documents into editable files
by using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). The OCR software also can get text from PDF.
Our Online OCR service is free to use, no registration necessary. Just upload your image files.
The OCR software takes JPG, PNG, GIF images or PDF documents as input. PDF OCR supports multi-page documents
and multi-column text. The only restriction of the free online OCR that the images/PDF must not be larger than 5MB.
If you need to automate your OCR and process many documents, do not web-scrape this page. It is made for humans, not computers.
Instead, please use the provided free OCR API.
Your data is safe: This Online OCR service and the OCR API store no data, as outlined in our strict privacy policy.
Supported OCR languages
Each of the four OCR Engines uses different recognition methods and supports different OCR languages. We recommend that you try each one to find out which one works best for your documents.
If you need help selecting the best OCR engine for your project, please contact us.
(*) English OCR is always included: In addition to the selected OCR language (e. g. Japanese), the English alphabet is also recognized.
Get your own, private, secure OCR portal page
If you want to convert larger PDF documents without page and size limit you can
subscribe to our
PRO PDF plan
. In addition to the PRO version of the API, this plan includes a custom OCR form just like the one on this page
but without the page and size limits. So you can use the power of our PDF OCR solution even without using the OCR API directly, at no extra costs.
If you have any questions, please contact us.
