Free OCR for Windows

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Editors’ Review

Download.com staffFebruary 26, 2026

This online Optical Character Recognition service accurately extracts text from images and PDF files. It supports 59 languages, leveraging the powerful Tesseract OCR engine via cloud technology.

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4.9

Pros
- Recognizes text from images and PDF files
- Supports 59 languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
- Uses the well-known Tesseract OCR Engine
- Cloud-based technology ensures a small application size
- Outputs editable text formats
Cons
- Requires an internet connection for operation
- Specific image file formats supported are JPG, PNG, BMP, TIF

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1/5

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Would not open .pdf file.

wuming12June 12, 2016

Pros: No pros because I did not try any other file format except a .pdf file.
Cons: Would not open .pdf file. I even changed from lower to upper case (.pdf to .PDF to .Pdf) and it gave an error. It would not open the file; Step 1. It also required an older version of .net Framework; ver. 2 and MS is up to ver. 4. So I had to search for the earlier version before the program installed.
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