Free OCR PDF
Upload a scanned PDF or image and OCRFire reads every page, creating a text-selectable PDF plus a plain-text download. Supports 100+ languages.
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PDF, PNG, JPEG, WEBP, TIFF · Max 100 MB
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Frequently Asked Questions
Upload your scanned PDF or image file, select the language in the settings panel, and click "OCR PDF." OCRFire runs Tesseract.js in your browser to recognise the text and overlays it invisibly on each page, producing a fully searchable PDF plus a plain-text download.
Over 100 languages including English, Arabic, Chinese Simplified, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Select your document's language from the settings panel for best accuracy.
Accuracy depends on scan quality, font style, and image resolution. Clean 300 DPI scans of standard fonts achieve near-perfect results. Handwriting, decorative fonts, low-resolution scans, or heavy image noise all reduce accuracy.
Yes - the tool accepts JPG, PNG, and WebP images in addition to PDFs. Phone photos work well when the image is in focus, well-lit, and taken straight-on rather than at an angle.