Our Privacy

Personal data

We will not view the files that you upload using the My Free OCR Service. All documents uploaded are automatically deleted after conversion. We may view your file`s information like file extension, file size, number of converted characters etc. but not your file content.

Third-party advertising

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.

Visitor tracking

Because we are curious where our users come from and how they find us we use a third party visitor tracking tool.

Changes to the privacy policy

This Privacy Statement may be modified from time to time. Any change, update or modification we make will be effective immediately upon posting on our site. Continued access of our sites by you will constitute your acceptance of any changes or revisions to the Privacy Statement.

About OCR

Optical Character Recognition is the process of recognising characters from an image. This is especially useful if you want to edit a scanned document.
You can use our free online OCR service to convert your scanned documents and download it as a text file ready for editing. Your document should be a valid image for example: .jpg, .png, .gif
Our free OCR service can handle several languages including: Chinese, English, Portuguese, Spanish, etc

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Features

Precise image to text conversion
Keeps the layout and formatting
Supports PDF, GIF, BMP, JPEG, TIFF or PNG as input
Supports TXT, DOC, or PDF as output
Automatically rotates pages
Supports low resolution images
Keeps the image layer of a scanned PDF
Works online - no installation
Keeps your data confidential and secure