Browser OCR for PDFs and Images
Extracts text from PDFs and images with Tesseract.js; the page says files stay in your browser.
Artifact by Simon Willison
Use it
Opens tools.simonwillison.net in a new tab. Nothing to install.
- You provide
- Image or PDF file
- You get
- Recognised text
- Account
- No sign-up needed
- AI
- AI-powered; no API key needed
- Your input
- Processed in your browser, not uploaded (stated by the tool or its repo)
- Price
- Free to use
- Made with
- AI-built app
- Source
- Open source
- Link check
- Answered on Oct 31, 2026
About
Category: Documents & PDF · ocr
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Details
- Auth
- No auth
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Repository
- github.com/simonw/tools
- Website
- tools.simonwillison.net/ocr
- First seen
- Oct 31, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 31, 2026
- Source
- GitHub
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Cite this page
Browser OCR for PDFs and Images: free online tool. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/artifacts/browser-ocr-for-pdfs-and-images (last updated 2026-10-31)