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OCRmyPDF + RapidOCR

Turn scanned PDFs into searchable, copyable PDFs, and pull the text out of screenshots and photos. Free, offline, nothing uploaded.

View verified repo ↗Start the missionTested by us · 2026-10-07

What you can do with it

  • Make scanned documents searchable
  • Copy text out of screenshots and slides
  • Read signs and labels from photos
Worth knowingUses Tesseract (Apache-2.0) and RapidOCR (Apache-2.0) under the hood. Handwriting is still hit and miss.

The full tutorial

01The ten-second win: copy text off your screenFREE02Install the PDF toolsMEMBERS03Make a scanned PDF searchableMEMBERS04Get the text out, and fix wonky scansMEMBERS05Copy text from screenshots and photosMEMBERS06Know where it struggles, and which tool to pickMEMBERS

Copy the text out of any screenshot, even a photo of a sign · ~32 min · tested 2026-10-07

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