Use case · OCR
Pull text out of any PDF. Instantly.
Drop a scanned or image-only PDF and get clean, copy-pasteable text — even when the original was a photo of a printed page.
99.9% accuracy on clean printed PDFs · average 0.4 s per page
How it works
Three steps. About 0.4 seconds of work for you.
Step 01
Upload your PDF
Drop a PDF of any size up to 20 MB. Multi-page documents are processed page by page automatically.
Step 02
We OCR every page
Our engine detects text on each page, including image-only PDFs where the text is baked into the scan.
Step 03
Copy, download, or translate
Get the cleaned text in seconds. Export as TXT, copy to clipboard, or translate it into 100+ languages.
Frequently asked
Questions before you upload?
Does this work on scanned PDFs that were just photos?
Yes. Image-only PDFs are exactly the case OCR is built for. We process each page through the OCR engine and return clean text.
Is there a page limit?
On the free tier each PDF counts toward your daily / monthly scan budget (10 scans/day, 300/month). Paid tiers are unlimited.
What languages are supported?
100+ languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Portuguese, Korean, and Russian. Mixed-language PDFs work too.
Will the original formatting be preserved?
We extract the text content. Layout, fonts, and tables are not preserved by default — for structured extraction (invoices, contracts, etc.), the Business tier offers Azure AI document intelligence.
What happens to my files after I scan them?
Files are processed over TLS, stored encrypted at rest, and deleted from the OCR queue after extraction. Free-tier history is kept 30 days; paid-tier history is forever or until you delete it.
Is it really free?
Yes. The free tier processes up to 10 ScanThisText.com scans per day and 300 per month with no credit card. Paid tiers unlock unlimited scans, AI extraction, and longer history.
Try it on your file. Free, in your browser.
No card required. 100+ languages. 99.9% accuracy on clean printed text.