Getting accurate OCR for Hindi and other Indian languages

Optical character recognition turns a picture of text into real, editable text. Our OCR tools use Tesseract, an open-source engine with trained models for Devanagari, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and other Indian scripts — running entirely in your browser.

Choose the right language

OCR reads much better when it knows the script. For a Hindi document, choose Hindi; for government forms that mix Hindi and English, choose English + Hindi. Marathi also uses Devanagari but has its own model, which handles its vocabulary better.

Take a better photo

• Hold the phone parallel to the page, filling the frame.
• Use daylight and avoid shadows from your hand or phone.
• Text should be sharp when you zoom in. Blurry matras and conjuncts are the most common cause of errors.

Running the photo through Document Scanner first (grayscale mode) often improves results.

Read the confidence score

Every result shows an average confidence. Above 85% is usually clean; below 60% means you should re-photograph or check the text carefully. Handwriting is outside what Tesseract is trained for.

Make scans searchable

If you just need to search or copy from a scanned PDF, Make PDF Searchable keeps the original look and adds an invisible text layer behind it.