OCR Text Extractor
OCRLive APIRead text from scans and images.
OCR Text Extractor
Read text from scans and images.
or drop a file anywhere in this box · PDF, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, WEBP
Files are processed securely and deleted after 1 hour.
Accepts
PDF, PNG, JPG, TIFF
Returns
Data
Batch
Single file
Cost
20 / page
How to OCR Text Extractor
Read text out of scans and photos with a tuned recognition pipeline — deskew, denoise and adaptive thresholding — that reaches around 99% accuracy on clean documents. Get plain text you can process, or a searchable PDF that looks identical but is fully selectable.
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Upload your file
Drop in your PDF, Office files, and images, or pick from your device.
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Set your options
Tune a couple of settings to get exactly the result you want.
- 3
Download the result
Grab your extracted data right away. Files are deleted automatically after an hour.
Why Bytefuse
Everything you get with OCR Text Extractor
Fast, faithful to your document, and ready for real work — in the browser or over the API.
~99% on clean scans
Deskew, denoise and adaptive thresholding squeeze accurate text out of scans and phone photos alike.
Text or searchable PDF
Export plain text for processing, or a searchable PDF that looks the same but is fully selectable.
Private by design
Your files are encrypted in transit, used only for this request, and deleted within an hour.
Automate it
Run OCR from your own code with a single REST call — SDKs and docs included.
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Prefer to automate? Call it by API.
curl -X POST https://api.bytefuse.in/ocr \
-H "Authorization: Bearer dt_live_••••" \
-F "file=@document.pdf" \
-F "output=text" \
-F "language=eng" \
-F "engine=tesseract"Questions, answered
Around 99% on clean, straight scans. Very low-resolution or handwritten pages are harder and may need a review pass.
The searchable-PDF output looks identical to your scan, with an invisible, selectable text layer added on top.
Open OCR Text Extractor on Bytefuse, upload your PDF, Office files, and images file, pick your options, and download the result in seconds. It works free in your browser with no signup, or through a single API call — files are automatically deleted after one hour.
Yes — it's free to try in your browser. Programmatic use through the API costs 20 credits per page per run.
They're encrypted in transit, processed only for your request, and automatically deleted within an hour. We never use them to train models.
PDF, Office files, and images.
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