Feature · OCR & Data Extraction
A scanned document is just an image until you OCR it.
Extract machine-readable text from any scanned PDF or image. 80+ languages. Searchable PDF or plain text output.
Try free — 40 creditsCapabilities
What OCR unlocks for your automation
Searchable Archive
Transform scanned PDFs into fully searchable documents. Every word indexed, every page accessible. No more manual searching through image-only PDFs.
Structured Extraction
OCR output pipes directly into table extraction. Scanned invoice → OCR → Extract Tables → JSON. A complete structured data pipeline in two API calls.
AI Pipeline Ready
OCR plain text output feeds directly into summarize, classify, or any AI action. Turn a scanned document into a structured summary without custom glue code.
80+ languages, organized by script family
Western European
English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Eastern European
Polish, Czech, Romanian, Hungarian, Bulgarian
Arabic & RTL
Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi — right-to-left layout respected
Asian Scripts
Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Japanese, Korean
Nordic
Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish
Default (Latin)
Automatic detection for Latin-script documents
API example
curl -X POST https://api.parselane.com/v1/process \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \ -F "file=@scanned-document.pdf" \ -F "action=ocr" \ -F "language=fra" \ -F "output_format=searchable_pdf" \ --output searchable.pdf
Make every scanned document searchable, extractable, and machine-readable.
40 free credits. No card. 80+ languages. Start extracting text from scanned documents in minutes.