What does OCR actually do?

Optical Character Recognition reads the shapes of letters in scanned images and turns them into real text you can search, select and copy.

How accurate is the recognition?

On clean 300 DPI scans of printed text, accuracy is typically excellent. Faded print, skewed pages and handwriting reduce accuracy.

Your choice: a searchable PDF with an invisible text layer over the original scan, or a plain text file of everything recognised.

English works out of the box, with major European languages selectable before processing.

No. Recognition runs in memory and your scans are purged as soon as the result is delivered.

Turn scanned pages into searchable, selectable text.

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What does OCR actually do?: Optical Character Recognition reads the shapes of letters in scanned images and turns them into real text you can search, select and copy.
How accurate is the recognition?: On clean 300 DPI scans of printed text, accuracy is typically excellent. Faded print, skewed pages and handwriting reduce accuracy.
What do I get back after OCR?: Your choice: a searchable PDF with an invisible text layer over the original scan, or a plain text file of everything recognised.
Which languages are supported?: English works out of the box, with major European languages selectable before processing.
Are my scanned documents stored?: No. Recognition runs in memory and your scans are purged as soon as the result is delivered.