Best Free OCR Tools Online
OCR extracts text from scans, photos, and PDF pages. Quality depends on scan resolution, language, and the engine used.
Options compared
- Irreva Image to Text / PDF OCR — Tesseract.js locally, 60+ languages
- Google Drive OCR — upload, good accuracy, cloud storage
- Adobe Scan mobile — excellent for phone captures
- ABBYY / paid APIs — enterprise accuracy
When local OCR wins
Contracts, IDs, and internal docs should stay on-device. Browser OCR keeps pixels off third-party servers.