How to OCR a Scanned Document in 15+ Languages
Run OCR on scans in English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Hindi, Chinese, and more — on-device, free, with no uploads.
OCR works across scripts
Modern OCR engines recognize far more than English. Latin scripts (Spanish, French, German, Portuguese), Cyrillic (Russian), Arabic, Devanagari (Hindi), and CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) are all supported by engines like Tesseract.
Select the language for accuracy
Accuracy improves dramatically when you tell the engine which language the document is in. Mixed-language documents can usually be handled too, though results vary with script complexity and scan quality.
A private way to do it
Because OCR is computationally heavy, many web tools upload your scans to a server. ToolVerse runs Tesseract.js in a Web Worker on your device, so multilingual scans are recognized locally and never leave your computer.
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