Read Spanish from a photo, scan or screenshot, with accented vowels, ñ and inverted ¿ ¡ handled as ordinary characters rather than dropped. One 8 MB model covers 47 Latin-script languages — French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Turkish, Vietnamese and more — so a document that switches between them is still one pass.
How it works
- Drop an image or PDF. Text detection runs immediately.
- Pick your language pack (downloaded once, 8–17 MB) and press Read text.
- Copy the lines, or download .txt / .json. PDFs are read cover to cover.
Questions
- Is this the same model as French or German OCR?
- Yes. PaddleOCR trains one recogniser per SCRIPT, not per language, and all 47 Latin-script languages share this 8 MB pack. That is why there is one page for it rather than 47 near-identical ones — you are already on the right page for any of them.
- Does my file get uploaded?
- No. The models and all processing run inside your browser on your own device. You can verify this yourself: open your browser’s DevTools, watch the Network tab, and process a file: there are no uploads. After the first visit most tools also work fully offline.
- Which languages are supported?
- 106 languages across Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Devanagari, CJK, Greek, Thai, Tamil and Telugu scripts. Bengali is the one major gap, since no v5 model exists for it yet, and the picker says so rather than guessing.
- How accurate is it?
- On clean document text, the measured character error rate is under 2%, and every line carries a confidence score so you can see which ones to check. Handwriting and low-resolution photos will read worse.
- Does it read scanned PDFs?
- Yes. Digital PDFs are read from their own text layer, with exact characters at exact positions. Scanned pages go through detection and recognition, and mixed documents use both.