Supported File Formats

Images

• JPEG
• PNG
• TIFF
• BMP
• GIF

Batch OCR

• Multi-page PDF
• DjVu
• ZIP
• Folder

Recognition results

• Text
• PDF
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• HTML
• RTF
• ePub
• JSON
• XML

Features and capabilities

• Photo OCR - Extract text from smartphone photos with scan-level accuracy.
• Searchable PDF - Convert any scan into a fully searchable, indexable and editable document.
• URL recognition - Recognize an image from URL without downloading it locally.
• Bulk recognition - Read all images from multi-page documents, folders and archives.
• Any font and style - Identify and recognize text in all popular typefaces and styles.
• Fine-tune recognition - Adjust every OCR parameter for best recognition results.
• Spell checker - Improve results by automatically correcting misspelled words.
• Find text in images - Search for text or regular expression within a set of images.
• Compare image texts - Compare texts on two images, regardless of the case and layout.
• 140+ Recognition Languages - The Python and .NET OCR API recognizes text in multilingual documents, such as Chinese/English, Arabic/French, or Cyrillic/English. The following languages are supported:
  • Extended Latin: English, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Portuguese, German, Vietnamese, Turkish, Italian, Polish, and 80+ more.
  • Cyrillic alphabet: Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh, Bulgarian, including mixed Cyrillic/English texts.
  • Arabic, Persian, Urdu, including texts mixed with English.
  • Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Devanagari, and Dravidian languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, and others.