OCR Pro
Extract text from handwritten notes and printed documents using a neural model — runs on your device.
About OCR Pro
OCR Pro reads text out of an image — both handwritten notes and printed pages — using a neural recognition model that runs entirely on your device. Reach for it when you have a photo of a page, a scanned receipt, or a whiteboard shot and you want editable, searchable text back instead of a picture. Because everything happens in your browser, the image never leaves your machine.
- Category
- export
- Input
- Accepts: image/jpeg, image/png or image/webp.
- Output
- Outputs: text/plain.
- Cost
- Free, runs in your browser
- Memory
- medium
- Install group
- image-ai
Common uses
- Turn a phone photo of a handwritten lecture note into typed text you can search and edit
- Pull the line items off a scanned receipt or invoice so you can paste them into a spreadsheet
- Digitize a printed page from a book or contract that you only have as a JPEG
- Read text off a whiteboard photo after a meeting and drop it into your notes app
- Extract a serial number or address from a product label snapshot without retyping it
- Recover text from an old PNG screenshot where the original source is long gone
Frequently asked questions
What image formats can I feed it?
JPEG, PNG, and WebP. If your scan is a PDF, render it to an image first or use a PDF text tool instead.
Does my image get uploaded to a server?
No. The neural model runs in your browser on your own device, so the photo and the recognized text stay local.
How well does it handle messy handwriting?
It is trained for both printed and handwritten text and does well with reasonably clear writing. Very stylized cursive or faint pencil can still produce errors, so proofread the output.
What do I get back?
Plain text (text/plain) that you can copy, edit, or chain straight into a translator or summarizer.
Is there a file-size limit?
There is no hard server limit since it runs locally, but very large or high-resolution images take longer and use more memory. A normal phone photo works fine.
Will it keep the original layout, columns, and tables?
It extracts the text content, not the page layout. Multi-column pages and tables come out as a linear stream of text, so you may need to reorganize complex layouts.
Keywords
- ocr
- handwriting
- text
- extract
- recognize
- neural
- scan
- document