Free OCR That Respects Your Privacy
Extract text from contracts, receipts, books, ID scans and handwritten notes without sending a single byte to a server.
On-Device Recognition
Most OCR services upload your scans to the cloud — a real risk for IDs, contracts and medical records. Raha Tools runs a WebAssembly OCR engine directly in your browser, so your documents never leave your device.
Why Use OCR?
A scanned page is just a picture — you can't select, search or edit the words inside it. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) reads those pixels and converts them back into real, editable text.
Perfect for: copying text from a scanned contract, digitizing receipts and invoices, pulling quotes from a book photo, or making an old document searchable again.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does the first run take longer?
The first time, your browser downloads the offline recognition engine and language data (a few MB). After that it's cached and runs instantly.
How accurate is it?
Accuracy is excellent on clear, straight scans and good-quality photos. Crooked or low-resolution images reduce accuracy — you can edit the result before saving.
Is my file uploaded?
Never. Recognition runs entirely in your browser, which makes it safe for confidential documents.
What else can I do?
After extracting, paste the text into our CV Maker, or use PDF to Word for digital PDFs that already contain selectable text.