OnlineOCR is an online optical character recognition service that converts images and PDF files to text. It supports formats such as JPG, PNG, GIF, JFIF, HEIC and PDF, and offers simple OCR as free raw text recognition alongside a premium OCR mode for tables, lists and headings. The site lists more than 100 languages for recognition.
NormCap is an OCR-powered screenshot tool that captures text instead of images. It uses Tesseract language models for text detection and supports QR and barcode scanning. Detection is performed on the device and no telemetry data is collected. It is available for Windows, macOS and Linux and is licensed under GPLv3.
OCR.space is a hosted online OCR service that converts images and PDF documents into editable text and can create searchable PDF files. It is free to use without registration, accepts JPG, PNG, GIF and PDF files, and supports multi-page documents and multi-column text. The free tier limits files to 5MB per document, and uploaded files and extracted text are deleted immediately after processing.
BeeRef is a simple reference image viewer that lets users arrange reference images and view them while creating. Images can be moved, scaled, rotated, cropped and flipped, mass-scaled to the same width, height or size, and mass-arranged vertically or horizontally. Text notes can be added. Images are embedded in the .bee file, a sqlite database.
Project Naptha is a browser-based tool that applies computer vision algorithms to images on web pages so text inside them can be highlighted, copied, edited and translated. The project page is a live demo showing text selection over words in an image. It was made by Kevin Kwok and Guillermo Webster.
Capture2Text is a free, GPL-licensed Windows utility that OCRs a portion of the screen using a keyboard shortcut and saves the resulting text to the clipboard by default. It supports Windows 7, 8/8.1 and 10 and packages several OCR languages, with additional language dictionaries installable.
OCRTool.net is a free online OCR tool that extracts text from images, PDFs and screenshots using Mistral AI's OCR model. It supports JPG, PNG, WEBP, BMP, GIF and PDF files up to 20 MB per file, with multi-language recognition and layout-aware conversion. No signup is required, no watermarks are added, and files and extracted text are not stored.
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NormCap is an OCR-powered screenshot tool that captures text instead of images. It uses Tesseract language models for text detection and supports QR and barcode scanning. Detection is performed on the device and no telemetry data is collected. It is available for Windows, macOS and Linux and is licensed under GPLv3.
OCR.space is a hosted online OCR service that converts images and PDF documents into editable text and can create searchable PDF files. It is free to use without registration, accepts JPG, PNG, GIF and PDF files, and supports multi-page documents and multi-column text. The free tier limits files to 5MB per document, and uploaded files and extracted text are deleted immediately after processing.
BeeRef is a simple reference image viewer that lets users arrange reference images and view them while creating. Images can be moved, scaled, rotated, cropped and flipped, mass-scaled to the same width, height or size, and mass-arranged vertically or horizontally. Text notes can be added. Images are embedded in the .bee file, a sqlite database.
Project Naptha is a browser-based tool that applies computer vision algorithms to images on web pages so text inside them can be highlighted, copied, edited and translated. The project page is a live demo showing text selection over words in an image. It was made by Kevin Kwok and Guillermo Webster.
Capture2Text is a free, GPL-licensed Windows utility that OCRs a portion of the screen using a keyboard shortcut and saves the resulting text to the clipboard by default. It supports Windows 7, 8/8.1 and 10 and packages several OCR languages, with additional language dictionaries installable.
OCRTool.net is a free online OCR tool that extracts text from images, PDFs and screenshots using Mistral AI's OCR model. It supports JPG, PNG, WEBP, BMP, GIF and PDF files up to 20 MB per file, with multi-language recognition and layout-aware conversion. No signup is required, no watermarks are added, and files and extracted text are not stored.
