Why is the first run slow?

A language model of roughly 10 MB is downloaded the first time you use a language. After that it is cached and later runs start immediately.

Good on clean, straight, well-lit scans. Numbers, names and anything handwritten are where it errs — always check those before relying on the output.

Does my document leave my device?

No. The recognition engine runs inside your browser. Only the language model is fetched, and that is public data unrelated to your file.

Runs the recognition engine inside your browser. The first run downloads a language model, so give it a moment.

Runs in your browser — nothing uploadednew

Why is the first run slow?: A language model of roughly 10 MB is downloaded the first time you use a language. After that it is cached and later runs start immediately.
How accurate is it?: Good on clean, straight, well-lit scans. Numbers, names and anything handwritten are where it errs — always check those before relying on the output.
Does my document leave my device?: No. The recognition engine runs inside your browser. Only the language model is fetched, and that is public data unrelated to your file.

Shrink a PDF to get under an email limit, with the quality trade-off spelled out.

Rebuild a damaged or unreadable PDF and recover what is still intact inside it.