Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is magic technology that turns pixels into words. Docnify puts this power in your hands for free, allowing you to digitize printed documents, handwritten notes, and screenshot text instantly.
Real-World Uses for OCR
Why re-type text when technology can read it for you?
Snap a photo of the whiteboard or a textbook page and convert it to digital notes you can search and edit.
Extract invoice numbers, addresses, or contract details from scanned papers without typing a single key.
Grab text from a foreign signage or menu, then paste it into Google Translate.
Powerful AI in Your Browser
We use Tesseract.js, a port of the world's most popular OCR engine. It runs neural network models directly in your web browser.
This is significantly more private than apps like Google Lens, which send your camera feed to the cloud. With Docnify, if you scan a personal letter, the image data stays in your browser memory and is discarded immediately after processing.
Tips for High Accuracy
OCR isn't perfect, but you can help it succeed:
- Lighting: Ensure even lighting on your document. Shadows can confuse the AI.
- Contrast: Black text on white paper works best. Light text on light backgrounds is hard to read.
- Alignment: Make sure the text is horizontal. If your image is rotated sideways, rotate it first using our Image Editor.
- Handwriting: While our engine is smart, neat handwriting is recognized much better than scribbles (or "doctor's handwriting").
Supported Languages
Our tool works primarily with English but offers basic support for over 100 languages. You can select the specific language model before starting the extraction to improve results for characters like accents or non-Latin scripts.