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FileBench

OCR

Read the text in scans and photos, and produce a searchable PDF, Word file or plain text.

Add your files

PDF, images, JPG, JPEG, PNG and more

You can also paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V

How it works

  1. 1

    Add scans, photos or a scanned PDF.

  2. 2

    Recognition runs in your browser — the file never leaves your device.

  3. 3

    Export a searchable PDF that looks the same but can be selected and searched.

Questions

How accurate is it?

Clean printed text is typically recognised very well. Handwriting, low light and heavy skew are much weaker. We show a per-page confidence score so you know what to check.

Does the layout change?

No. A searchable PDF keeps the original page image and puts an invisible text layer behind it.

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