Free OCR for images in 6 languages: English, Hindi, Spanish, French, German, and Arabic. Powered by Tesseract.js, runs in your browser, no upload required.
OCR is the technology that turns image-of-text into actual editable text. Multi-language support means you can OCR documents in Hindi, Arabic, Spanish, etc. — Tesseract has been trained on each language's character set and language model.
Pick an image. Choose the language matching the text in the image. Click Extract. The first OCR per language downloads its trained model (~5–15 MB). Subsequent runs are fast. Output is the extracted text.
Use it for multilingual document digitisation, for translating non-English signage starting from photos, for accessibility (converting image-text to screen-reader-readable text), and for archiving scanned books and documents in any of the 6 supported languages.
Always pick the right language — Tesseract's accuracy depends on it. For mixed-language documents, run OCR with the dominant language first; the other parts will be flagged as recognition errors. For Arabic, the right-to-left text direction is preserved in output.
Tesseract supports 100+ languages but each model is 5–15 MB. We pre-listed common ones; other languages can be added by editing the dropdown.
Convert the PDF to JPG first (use the PDF To JPG tool), then OCR each image.
No — typical accuracy is 95%+ on clean printed text. Handwriting, blurry scans, and low contrast reduce accuracy.
Explore more media & ocr on the tool hub — or jump straight to the Image To Text Converter, JPG To Word, Image Translator.