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OCR to PDF converter

Read text from a photo or scan on your device and lay it onto an A4 PDF you can download, with a text-only download too.

Drop a scan or photo to read

JPG, PNG, WebP · Up to 20 MB · stays on your device
Text recognition runs on your device with the recognizer built into the browser. No recognizer here? Type or paste the text below instead.Choose a scan or photoor paste

Add text above and the A4 layout appears here.

Reading happens on your device with the text recognizer built into the browser, so the scan never uploads. Chrome on Android and ChromeOS ship one; most desktop browsers do not, and there the tool becomes an honest typographer: paste or type the text, get the same A4 PDF.

What this does not do: read handwriting, straighten a skewed scan, or fetch language packs. The PDF holds the recognized text typeset on A4, not the image itself, and a character with no shape in the built-in font (CJK, emoji) is drawn as ?. Messy scans give messy text, so read the preview before you download.
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