OCRRouterGet API key

OCR PDF online

Run OCR on a PDF and get its text back. Scanned, faxed and photographed PDFs become readable text.

Result

Your Markdown or JSON shows up here.

3 free pages a day, no sign-up.

How it works

  1. Step 1
    Upload your PDF
  2. Step 2
    OCR runs on every page
  3. Step 3
    Copy or download the recognised text

Why use this OCR PDF converter

Vision models, not just Tesseract

The free tool uses modern OCR models that cope with skew, stamps, low resolution and mixed languages.

Pick your engine via the API

Compare Mistral OCR, Gemini, Textract, Azure and open-source models on your own PDFs and switch with one parameter.

Fallbacks

With an account, a page that fails on one model can be retried on another automatically.

What people use it for

Models that do this well

The free tool picks one for you. With the API you choose, and can set fallbacks so a failed page is retried on the next model.

1Mistral OCRFast document OCR that returns clean Markdown with tables and embedded images.mistral/mistral-ocr6 credits / page2Amazon TextractAWS OCR with form key-value pairs, tables and per-word confidence scores.aws/textract6 credits / page3Azure Document IntelligenceAzure layout model with tables, selection marks and prebuilt invoice and ID readers.azure/document-intelligence15 credits / page4Gemini FlashGeneral vision model with strong handwriting and layout understanding at a low price.google/gemini-flash3 credits / page5TesseractThe classic open-source OCR engine. Plain text from clean printed scans.tesseract/tesseractFree

Do it with the API

Converting more than a few files? The same conversion is one request. Pick any model, or let auto choose.

Get API key

curl https://api.ocrrouter.ai/v1/ocr \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OCRROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "auto",
    "file_url": "https://example.com/invoice.pdf",
    "format": "markdown"
  }'

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