Indian paperwork is often a phone photo of a Hindi or bilingual form. Cloud OCR can help — and it uploads every page. SortMyFile OCR PDF runs Tesseract in your browser so scans become searchable without sending pixels to our servers. Results vary by script quality; here is what free can do today and what Pro OCR is for.
How free no-upload OCR works on SortMyFile
Each page is rendered, recognized on-device, and merged into a searchable PDF. The first run may download language data once. Your document contents stay in the tab for recognition.
What accuracy should you expect on Hindi or mixed scans?
Clean, high-contrast typed Devanagari can work when the right language data is available; blurry phone photos, stamps over text, and handwriting fail more often. English typed scans are the strongest free path today.
Steps to OCR a scanned PDF privately
Prefer flatbed or well-lit captures. Crop margins. Run OCR PDF, then try Find (Cmd/Ctrl+F) on the download. If recognition is weak, re-scan sharper before paying for anything.
- Open OCR PDF
- Drop a scanned or image-only PDF
- Wait for on-device recognition
- Download and test search/select on a known phrase
When Pro OCR Pack is worth paying for
Pro OCR (roadmap) targets Indic languages, degraded scans, and handwriting beyond free Tesseract — plus better export fidelity. Free OCR stays unlimited either way; Pro is about quality, not page caps.
Try it now
Open the matching SortMyFile tool — processing stays in your browser.