A scanned document is a stack of photographs as far as your computer is concerned — you can't search it, select from it, or have a screen reader read it aloud. OCR fixes that by recognising the text and storing it alongside the image.
Online OCR often means sending the scan to someone else's server, or hitting a free-tier page cap. Here it runs in your browser, so your scans — which are frequently identity documents and medical records — stay on your device.
The recognised text is added as an invisible layer on top of the original scan, so the document looks exactly the same and the image is never re-encoded. You also get the recognised text as a .txt file, pages that already have real text can be skipped, and you can pick the languages, the pages and how sharply each page is drawn before it is read. A progress line and a Cancel button stay on screen while it works.
Type into real form fields, or anywhere on a flat form.
Draw, type, or upload a signature and place it on any page.
Number the pages, with control over position and format.
Add DRAFT, CONFIDENTIAL or a logo across the pages.
Cut away white margins or crop pages down visually.
Combine files into one PDF and set the order before you merge.
Break a document into separate files by pages, bookmarks, size or interval.
Drag pages into a new order, rotate or drop the ones you don't need.
Turn sideways or upside-down pages the right way up.
Pick pages to drop, visually or by range.
Keep only the pages you want as a separate file.
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