Hindi OCR for scanned PDFs

Recognise Hindi and English in scanned PDFs, even both on one page, so you can search, select and copy the text.

Open Hindi OCR for scanned PDFs

What you can do

• Hindi and English on the same page, as court papers have.
• Pages upside down or on their side are turned the right way up.
• Search finds Hindi however it is spelled: हिन्दी or हिंदी, अतः or अत:, ज़ or ज.
• Downloaded files keep an invisible, searchable text layer, so the Hindi can be searched in other PDF readers too.
• High-accuracy OCR (Google Cloud Vision) for pages that are hard to read.

How to do it

1. Open Make searchable and choose a scanned PDF.
2. Recognition starts on your device.
3. Search, copy, or Download the searchable PDF.

Good to know

• Free OCR is not uploaded: it runs in your browser.
• High-accuracy OCR is different: the page you choose is sent as an image to Google Cloud Vision, only when you ask.
• A free account scans 5 files a week (from Monday), by either reader. Professional has no weekly limit.
• Tested with a 520-page, 128 MB scanned bundle on a laptop. Very large files need a computer with enough memory; phones manage less.

Questions

Can I turn the Hindi into a Word file?

Yes. After OCR, PDF to Word gives an editable .docx with the Hindi text.

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