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Browser OCR Workspace

Client-side OCR for PDFs and images using local PDF.js and Tesseract runtimes, with browser-cached language downloads, per-page output, and a combined full-document view.

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Browser OCR Workspace

What it does

Browser OCR Workspace extracts text from PDFs and images without uploading files to a server.

The workflow is intentionally inspectable: each rendered page or image is shown next to the extracted text so you can review OCR quality before copying the combined document.

How to use it

  • Open: https://tools.tedt.org/tools/ocr.html
  • Choose an OCR language pack. The first use of a language downloads the traineddata into the browser cache.
  • Drop a PDF or image, choose a file, paste an image, or load the bundled example PDF.
  • Review each page/image result.
  • Copy the full document from the combined output panel.

Notes

  • The PDF.js and Tesseract runtime assets are vendored locally.
  • Language data is fetched on demand from the public Tesseract.js data packages and cached by the browser.
  • Worker-based OCR is most reliable on the deployed site or over http://localhost.

Features

  • Runs OCR entirely in the browser with local runtime assets and browser-cached language downloads
  • Accepts PDFs, JPG, PNG, GIF, and pasted clipboard images
  • Renders PDF pages before OCR so each page can be reviewed independently
  • Produces per-page textareas plus a combined full-document output
  • Includes an on-demand catalog of OCR language packs