Extract text in images and PDFs online

Need to convert an image or scanned document to a structured PDF? Our online converter lets you convert your file to a searchable PDF.

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Images or PDFs

Images or PDFs

Once your PDF file has been imported into our web module, you can extract text from your files in just a few clicks and copy paste the text as you need. You can extract text with our state of the art text recognition module (OCR) on JPG, JPEG, PNG or PDFs.

Online assistance

Online assistance

Don’t know how to use our text recognition module? OCR not working? Can't copy paste from your PDF? Whatever the problem, you can contact our experts by e-mail. Available 24/7, they will advise and guide you to help you extract text from your PDF documents effectively and securely.

7-day trial

7-day trial

When you activate your 7-day trial period, you can use our tool to extract text from an unlimited numbers of PDF files. So by using our module, you no longer need to manually rewrite all your contracts from images and scanned documents, you can just copy paste them from our searchable pdfs.

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Extract the text from your scanned images or handwritten documents in the blink of an eye using our tool

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Extract text from an image

Is there text in one of your images? With our powerful tool, you can extract it and use it as you need

Text recognition

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Extract text from a scanned document

Do you have a scan of a handwritten document? Send it to our platform and our tool will extract the content for you to use!

OCR tool

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Make changes to your PDFs

Once you have extracted the text from your document, you have an infinite number of possibilities. You can change the format of the text, modify it or protect it with a password

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How to extract text from an image online

1. Import the PDF, JPG or PNG document you wish to extract text from.

2. Download the searchable PDF document with text you can copy/paste

How to extract text from an image online

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With PDF Smart, it’s never been so easy to extract text from an image or scanned document. With our state of the art text recognition feature, you can extract text from any document.

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