The world’s most powerful free online OCR

Helping thousands of developers convert images and PDFs to text with Online Optical Character Recognition

How to convert an Image to Text or PDF?

Upload Images or PDF Files

Select files from your computer, or just drag and drop into the upload box. The OCR tool supports image and pdf formats like PNG, JPEG/JPG, PDF, TIF/TIFF and more.
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Convert to text

Our online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool automatically recognizes content in your files and converts it into editable text.

Download text file

Download your converted text file within seconds.

What is OCR?

Ever wonder how the iPhone detects text from images? It is made possible via OCR. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is a technology that converts an image of text into a machine-readable text format. OCR systems combine hardware and software to convert physical, printed documents into machine-readable text.

OCR extracts data from scanned documents, images, and PDFs. Optical character recognition works by identifying letters on the image, putting them into words, and then putting the words into sentences, thus enabling accessing and editing the original content. It also eliminates the need for manual data entry.

What is OCR used for?

OCR can transform and streamline business operations across sectors and industries by effortlessly extracting data from scanned documents.

Banking

Banks are synonymous with paperwork. However, storing and retrieving information on paper is a cumbersome task. That’s where OCR technology can help. Banks can effectively digitize large amounts of paperwork with minimal effort. Our free online OCR tool can be instrumental in increasing the efficiency of common banking procedures such as KYC verification, loan approval, balance sheet reconciliation, audits, and more.

Government

Many legal industries still use paper trail methods for information processing. Whether registering a license or voting ID cards, the technology streamlines the workflow. Rather than verifying users’ data manually, OCR technology checks the registered users’ data by scanning their cards and accessing details seamlessly.

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Finance

Online OCR can tremendously benefit the financial sector by enabling professionals and accountants to focus on high-priority tasks. Nanonets’ OCR tool can automate common but often neglected financial operations such as accounts payable, reconciliation, record-to-report, and purchase order matching while maintaining high speed and accuracy. Automating data entry is another use case where OCR to text is significantly improving efficiency for financial sector.

Health

Organizations in the medical field manage a large volume of paper medical records, health insurance forms, and more. Hence, issues like higher turnaround times, erroneous claims processing, and high customer dissatisfaction are the norm. Our online OCR tool for healthcare provides a solution by converting all forms of data–patient data, treatment history, insurance payments, or diagnosis information, into digitally accessible formats, enhancing process efficiency in healthcare.

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Key Features of Nanonets' OCR

multiple input formats for image to text

Supports Multiple Input Formats

Our OCR tool supports image and pdf formats like PNG, JPEG/JPG, PDF, and more

multiple output formats for image to text

Supports Multiple Output Formats

Our OCR tool is able to generate output in multiple formats including plain text and excel

no training required to convert image to text

Requires No Training

This is a web OCR tool that requires no input for training

Supports Multiple Languages

Our OCR converter supports over 50+ languages, making it ideal for a diverse range of users

Data Security

Nanonets prioritises the confidentiality and integrity of your data

IT / API Friendly

Our OCR tool is simple to integrate and features a user-friendly API

Free to Use

Extracting text from images is totally free for "Guest" users and allows you to convert 5 files a day

Supports Workflow Creation

Unlike other solutions, our platform offers fully automated OCR workflows

Integrate in less than 30 seconds

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Browse libraries for different programming languages and mobile platforms.

import requests
import base64

url = "https://app.nanonets.com/api/v2/OCR/FullText"

payload={'urls': ['MY_IMAGE_URL']}
files=[
  ('file',('FILE_NAME',open('FILE_PATH','rb'),'application/pdf'))
]
headers = {}

response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data=payload, files=files, auth=requests.auth.HTTPBasicAuth('REPLACE_API_KEY', ''))

print(response.text)

var axios = require('axios');
var FormData = require('form-data');
var fs = require('fs');
var data = new FormData();
data.apend('urls','FILE_URL')
data.append('file', fs.createReadStream('FILE_PATH'));

var config = {
  method: 'post',
  url: 'https://app.nanonets.com/api/v2/OCR/FullText',
  headers: { 
    'Authorization': 'Basic ' + Buffer.from("REPLACE_API_KEY" + ":").toString('base64'), 
    ...data.getHeaders()
  },
  data : data
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

var axios = require('axios');
var FormData = require('form-data');
var fs = require('fs');
var data = new FormData();
data.apend('urls','FILE_URL')
data.append('file', fs.createReadStream('FILE_PATH'));

var config = {
  method: 'post',
  url: 'https://app.nanonets.com/api/v2/OCR/FullText',
  headers: { 
    'Authorization': 'Basic ' + Buffer.from("REPLACE_API_KEY" + ":").toString('base64'), 
    ...data.getHeaders()
  },
  data : data
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

var client = new RestClient("https://app.nanonets.com/api/v2/OCR/FullText");
client.Timeout = -1;
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.Default.GetBytes("REPLACE_YOUR_API_KEY:")));
request.AddFile("file", "FILE_PATH");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
Console.WriteLine(response.Content); 

curl --location --request POST 'https://app.nanonets.com/api/v2/OCR/FullText' \
-u 'REPLACE_API_KEY:' \
--form 'file=@"FILE_PATH"' 

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The world’s most powerful free online OCR

How to convert an Image to Text or PDF?

Upload Images or PDF Files

Convert to text

Download text file

What is OCR?

What is OCR used for?

Banking

Government

Finance

Health

Key Features of Nanonets' OCR

Supports Multiple Input Formats

Supports Multiple Output Formats

Requires No Training

Supports Multiple Languages

Data Security

IT / API Friendly

Free to Use

Supports Workflow Creation

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