Read Tamil script out of an image. Tamil writes vowels as marks attached around the consonant — before, after, above or on both sides at once — so the recogniser has to read a cluster as one unit rather than left to right. English on the same page is read by the same 7.9 MB pack, which downloads once and then works offline.
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
- What Tamil sources does it read best?
- Printed text — books, signage, forms, screenshots — is what it is trained on and where it is strongest. Handwritten Tamil is not part of that training. Every line carries a confidence score, so weak reads are visible rather than silent.
- 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.