Free PDF OCR Tool

More than 1000 enterprises extract text and tables from PDFs with our free online PDF OCR Tool.
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Upload Images or PDF Files

Select files from your computer, or just drag and drop into the upload box. Supports PDF, PNG, JPG files.

OCR works on PDF File

Our PDF OCR tool automatically recognizes the content in your file and converts it into text that you can then edit.

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Download your converted text file within seconds.

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“Working with NanoNets has been superfluid. They understand the requirements of SMBs very well, and were quickly able to suggest workflow automations using their solution. The other important thing about NanoNets was that it did not disturb the operations for any employee, instead made their work easier.”

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Head of Accounts Payable, ACM SERVICES

“I would recommend NanoNets over other services because of their friendly team. I knew integration with our current stubborn accounting software was going to be difficult, but the NanoNets team assured me they could make it happen for us. They delivered better than I could have expected. I have built a relationship with Nano which is an important ideal of ACM and it feels now as if they are part of the family.”

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Nanonets helped us deploy the data capture workflow with Quickbooks < 7 days from the contract signing date. This has directly impacted the finance team, who can process 50% more invoices at the same time without hiring more people.

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We are impressed with the intelligence in the product when it comes to data extraction. This opens up for many new areas where we can help our customers, like detection of fraud. We have been having a tight and transparent dialogue with Nanonets. Our customers are very pleased with the product as well as the technical support we together with Nanonets have been able to provide.

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Founder, DigitalEngine (Sweden), ex-CIO PwC Sweden

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Try a smarter way to OCR PDFs and Images and extract data in seconds.

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Why Nanonets PDF OCR is better ?

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Receive documents from multiple channels
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PDF OCR API

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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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Once you create your account, click on My Account > API Keys to get your key. This key will allow you to authenticate API requests.

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Our Python Library gives you added control and options to perform OCR and extract text and tabular results in desired formats instantly.

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Key Features

User-friendly online OCR interface
Convert .jpg, .bmp, .png or .PDFs to text
No registration or signup needed
Free, low latency OCR API with unlimited requests
State of the art OCR accuracy - best in class
Supports 42+ languages for text recognition
Secure conversion - all data is removed
Over 1 billion requests processed

PDF OCR FAQs

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