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OCR.chat — Free OCR + chat with your PDF or image — text, tables, math

OCR that reads your documents — then lets you chat with them

Drop an image or PDF for clean text, tables and math in 100+ languages — then ask questions and get answers cited to the page. No signup to try.

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Russian (Русский)

Japanese (日本語)

Korean (한국어)

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Arabic (العربية)

Hindi (हिन्दी)

Turkish (Türkçe)

Polish (Polski)

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Finnish (Suomi)

Norwegian (Norsk)

Ukrainian (Українська)

Thai (ไทย)

Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt)

Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia)

Malay (Bahasa Melayu)

Hebrew (עברית)

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Romanian (Română)

Hungarian (Magyar)

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Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ)

Malayalam (മലയാളം)

Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ)

Odia (ଓଡ଼ିଆ)

Nepali (नेपाली)

Sinhala (සිංහල)

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Igbo

Zulu (isiZulu)

Xhosa (isiXhosa)

Afrikaans

Somali (Soomaali)

Malagasy

Shona (chiShona)

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Croatian (Hrvatski)

Serbian (Српски)

Slovak (Slovenčina)

Slovenian (Slovenščina)

Lithuanian (Lietuvių)

Latvian (Latviešu)

Estonian (Eesti)

Albanian (Shqip)

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Icelandic (Íslenska)

Irish (Gaeilge)

Welsh (Cymraeg)

Basque (Euskara)

Catalan (Català)

Galician (Galego)

Belarusian (Беларуская)

Javanese (Jawa)

Sundanese (Basa Sunda)

Pashto (پښتو)

Sindhi (سنڌي)

Kurdish (Kurdî)

Haitian Creole (Kreyòl Ayisyen)

Maori (Te Reo Māori)

Tatar (Татар)

Uyghur (ئۇيغۇرچە)

Assamese (অসমীয়া)

Yiddish (ייִדיש)

Luxembourgish (Lëtzebuergesch)

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Fast handles printed text. Premium AI reads handwriting, math, tables & complex layouts.

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Create a free account to use the Premium AI engine — handwriting, math, tables and complex layouts.

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Drop a file, click to browse, or paste a screenshot

PNG · JPG · WEBP · TIFF · multi-page PDF

🔒 Your files are processed privately and deleted automatically.

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Then chat with your document

Once the text is extracted, ask questions and get answers grounded in your document — each one cited back to the page. Summaries, totals, dates, clauses: just ask.

Chat with a PDF

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Real tables, not mush

Tables come out as real Markdown/CSV — never misaligned text. Nothing is silently dropped.

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See it side by side

Review the extracted text next to your original, with low-confidence spans flagged before you trust them.

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One paste, every format

Copy or download as TXT, Markdown, DOCX, searchable PDF, JSON, or LaTeX — all from one screen.

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100+ languages

Latin, CJK, Arabic, Cyrillic, Indic and more. Foreign words are transcribed, never auto-translated.

Math → LaTeX

Equations and formulas convert to clean LaTeX you can paste straight into your paper.

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Simple API

One POST request returns clean Markdown or JSON. Metered per page, no surprises.

A tool for every document

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Image to Text

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PDF to Text

📝

PDF to Word

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Image to Word

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PDF to Markdown

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Table Extractor

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Searchable PDF

✍️

Handwriting to Text

Math to LaTeX

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Receipt Scanner

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Invoice OCR

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Translate a Document

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Chat with PDF

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Chat with a Document

Create a free account

Unlock the Premium AI engine for handwriting, math and tables, save your OCR history, and get more pages every month — free to start, no card required.

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How it works

Upload or paste

Drop an image or PDF, click to browse, or paste a screenshot. Multi-page PDFs and batches welcome.

The right engine reads it

A fast engine handles printed text; the premium AI engine tackles handwriting, complex layouts, tables and math — in 100+ languages.

Review & export

Check the text side by side with your original, then copy or download as TXT, Markdown, Word, searchable PDF, CSV or JSON.

Why OCR.chat

Feature<br>OCR.chat<br>Typical OCR tools

Try with no signup✅Often paywalled<br>Real tables (Markdown/CSV)✅Misaligned text<br>Handwriting & math (LaTeX)✅Rare<br>100+ languages, no auto-translate✅Limited<br>TXT · MD · DOCX · PDF · CSV · JSON✅One or two<br>Side-by-side review + confidence✅—<br>Simple REST API✅Enterprise only

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Frequently asked questions

Is OCR.chat free?

Yes — you can extract text with no signup at all. A free account adds more pages each month, and paid plans unlock unlimited pages, the premium...

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