Transform Scanned PDFs Instantly with AI Powered OCR
UPDF OCR feature enables you to turn image-based PDFs into searchable and editable formats.
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Text Recognition
Convert Scanned PDF
Support 38+ Language
High-quality File
Batch OCR
Handwritten Text
1.How can I turn scanned documents into searchable and editable PDFs?
Yes, you should consider using the OCR feature offered by UPDF for turning scanned documents into editable PDFs. It provides two options for using the OCR technology, where it converts the document into a "Searchable PDF" or "Image-only PDF."
2.What languages are supported by the OCR tool of UPDF?
UPDF provides a total of 38 languages in its OCR tool which includes, Belarusian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Dutch (Belgian), English, Finnish, French, German, German (Luxembourg), German (New Spelling), Greek, Hebrew, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Japanese (Modern), Korean, Korean (Hangul), Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Russian (Old Spelling), Russian with Stress Marks, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Turkmen (Cyrillic), Turkmen (Latin), Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. Along with that, it also provides 4 bilingual options of Chinese Simplified and English, Chinese Traditional and English, Japanese and English, and Korean and English in its OCR tool.
3.What can I do if I want to apply the OCR on a PDF document with multiple languages?
If your PDF document is bilingual and you want to make it editable and searchable, then you can select more than one language in the OCR tool of UPDF. UPDF also offers 4 bilingual languages, which are Chinese Simplified and English, Chinese Traditional and English, Japanese and English, and Korean. However, please note that if you select more than 3 languages in the OCR tool of UPDF, then the process of the OCR recognition might become slower.
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iOS
Supports iOS 14.0 or later
Android
Supports Android 6.0 or later