Turn a scan into a searchable PDF.
Keeps the page looking exactly like the photo, with real selectable, searchable text hidden underneath.
Drop photos or scans here
JPG, PNG, or HEIC-from-camera. One page per image, in the order you drop them.
Positioned word by word.
Each word sits exactly where it appears in the photo — select it, search it, copy it.
One PDF, many photos.
Drop several pages of a document and get back one file, in order.
Fix the angle before you scan.
A crooked photo tanks recognition accuracy — nudge it square with one tap.
Pull the text out of a photo.
A screenshot, a whiteboard photo, a printed page — get back plain, editable text.
Drop a photo or screenshot here
One image at a time.
Land in a text box, not a file.
Fix a misread word right there, then copy or download.
English, Spanish, French, German.
Pick the language before you run it — recognition is tuned per language.
The image never leaves your device.
Recognition runs in your browser, not on a server somewhere.
Give an old scan a text layer.
For PDFs that are really just photos of pages — the kind you can't select or search.
Drop a PDF here
Each page is re-rendered as a high-resolution image with hidden, searchable text underneath.
Handles multi-page scans.
Every page gets its own recognition pass, in order.
Looks identical, behaves differently.
The output looks like the original — but now you can select, search, and copy from it.
Even the rendering stays on-device.
Pages are decoded and recognized right in your browser.
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