Urdu OCR Online

1. Open this page in Safari and tap Choose files, then Photo Library or Take Photo.
2. Keep the language on Urdu + English and tap Extract text.
3. Tap Copy text and paste it into Notes, Pages or a message, or tap Word to save a document.

1. Open this page in Chrome and tap Choose files, or Take photo to use the camera.
2. Tap Extract text and wait for the text to appear.
3. Copy it into any app, or save it as a TXT or Word file from the buttons under the text.

1. Take a screenshot (Windows: Win + Shift + S. Mac: Shift + Command + 4).
2. Click on this page and press Ctrl + V (Command + V on Mac) to paste the screenshot.
3. Click Extract text, then Copy text.

1. Drop the scanned PDF on the box above. Up to 50 pages are read, one after another.
2. Click Extract text and wait until the progress bar finishes.
3. Copy the text, or download it as a TXT or Word file. Pages are joined in order.

Add your image to the tool above, keep the language on Urdu + English and click Extract text. The text appears in an editable box. You can then copy it or save it as a TXT file or a Word document.

Yes. It is free to use, needs no account, and adds no watermark. There is no daily limit, because the work is done on your own device.

On clean, typed Urdu in Naskh-style fonts, results are very good and usually need only small corrections. On calligraphic Nastaliq print, on blurry photos and on small scans, accuracy drops and you should check every line. Accuracy depends mostly on the quality of the picture.

It tries, but this is the hardest case. Many Pakistani books and newspapers use Nastaliq, where letters join and stack in ways that OCR finds difficult. Expect more mistakes there than with typed Naskh text. A sharp scan at 300 dpi or more helps.

No. The reader is made for printed text. Handwriting varies too much from person to person, and it is not supported.

Yes. Drop the scanned PDF on the tool and each page is read in turn. You then get one block of text that you can save as TXT or Word.

Yes. Click Word under the text box to download a DOCX file. Urdu lines are set right to left, so they open correctly in Word, Google Docs and LibreOffice.

Yes. Leave the language on Urdu + English, which is the default. The tool reads the picture in Urdu and in English and keeps the better reading of each line, so Urdu lines, English lines and lines with an English word or e-mail address inside Urdu all come out in the right script. Reading only Urdu is faster, but it will mangle any English text.

No. The OCR engine runs in your browser, on your device. Your images, scans and the extracted text are never sent to FileXL or to any other server, so it is safe for private and official documents.

The OCR engine and the language data are downloaded the first time you use the tool. That is about 8 MB for Urdu plus English, and about 5 MB for Urdu only. They are then kept by your browser, so later runs start much faster.

Hold the phone straight above a flat page, use even daylight, fill the frame with the text and keep the picture sharp. In the tool, leave Clean up photo ticked. If the page is sideways, rotate it before you extract.

Urdu letters change shape depending on where they sit in a word, and some letters differ only by dots. A small blur or a missing dot is enough to change a letter. Check the result against the original, and use a sharper picture if there are many errors.

Numbers are written left to right inside right-to-left Urdu lines, and OCR can mix up the order of number groups such as a phone number with a dash or a date with slashes. Always check numbers against the original and fix them in the text box before you use them.

The TXT file is saved in UTF-8 and shows Urdu in any modern program, but plain text has no right-to-left layout. Download the Word file instead if you want right-aligned Urdu lines and your own font.

Each image can be up to 40 MB and each PDF up to 100 MB. The first 50 pages of a PDF are read. Everything is processed in your device memory, so very large scans can be slow on an older phone.

This tool is made for Urdu and English. Arabic and Persian share many letters with Urdu, but the reader is trained for Urdu, so results for other languages will be poor.

Yes. Open this page in Safari or Chrome, tap Choose files or Take photo, and extract the text. It also works on Windows, Mac and Chromebook, and you can paste a screenshot with Ctrl + V.

Add the scanned PDF to the tool, click Extract text, and then click Word under the text box. You get a DOCX file with the Urdu text set right to left. Scanned PDFs are pictures, so the text has to be read from the pages first.

OCR stands for optical character recognition. It is the technology that reads the letters in a photo, scan or PDF and turns them into real text that you can edit, search and copy.

Large cloud services such as Google Lens can be stronger on difficult text such as Nastaliq, but they receive your file. This tool reads your pages on your own device, so nothing is uploaded, and it has no sign-up, no watermark and no limits.

No. The text, the Word file and the PDF contain only your content. FileXL adds no watermark, header or footer.

Any current version of Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari or Samsung Internet. The tool needs JavaScript and WebAssembly, which all of them include.

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