Text recognition OCR

Text recognition (OCR)

Text recognition reads the words in photos, scans and print-only PDFs. It runs on your own device.

• Read automatically: English and the other Latin-alphabet languages (Spanish, French, German, ...) and Greek; Cyrillic too on Windows and Mac.
• Other alphabets (for example Arabic, Tamil, Chinese, Japanese, Korean): on Windows and Mac click Change next to Languages in the tab you are using (on Android tap Change next to Languages too). Each alphabet downloads once, the first time you choose it, and then works offline. If much of the text in a file can't be read, the app says so after converting and offers to add an alphabet. Hebrew text can't be recognised yet.
• Choosing only the languages you need also makes recognition faster.

For best results: sharp, well-lit, straight photos; scans at 300 dpi.