Is this PDF OCR tool free?

Yes! PDF Toolkit Pro offers free optical character recognition with no subscription paywalls.

Can it read handwriting?

OCR works best on printed typefaces. Clear, block handwriting may be recognized, but stylized cursive is less accurate.

You can copy the extracted text to your clipboard or download it as a clean text file (.txt) or Word document (.docx).

Yes, files are processed securely and deleted immediately with zero server storage.

Extract text from scanned PDFs and document images using high-accuracy optical character recognition (OCR) online for free in your browser.

Upload Scanned PDF or Image: Drag and drop your scanned PDF file or document photo into the OCR workstation.
Select Document Language: Choose the primary language of the text (English, Spanish, French, German, and more).
Run OCR Recognition: Click Extract Text to analyze letterforms and reconstruct text paragraphs.
Copy or Download Text: Copy the recognized text to your clipboard or download as a .txt or .docx file.