Our Story
I built this because every OCR tool failed me.
I'm a software engineer who researches history. That means reading scanned books in Urdu, Arabic, and Farsi — languages most software barely supports.
Every tool I tried was broken
Free tools cap you at 2–3 pages. A scanned book has hundreds.
Desktop apps require heavy downloads and still produce garbage for non-Latin scripts.
The few tools that handle Arabic cost $20+/month and get text direction wrong.
None give you a proper searchable PDF — just raw text with broken formatting.
AI can read these scripts with 95%+ accuracy. Why is there no simple tool that uploads a PDF, runs OCR, and gives back a searchable version?
So I built one.
What FastOCR does differently
RTL-native
Urdu, Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew — correct text direction in searchable PDFs. Not an afterthought.
Up to 10,000 pages
30-page document? One minute. 3,000-page book? Under 5 minutes. No artificial caps on what matters.
AI Polish
One-click error correction. AI reads the original image and fixes what OCR got wrong.
Built-in translation
Extract text and translate to 12+ languages in the same workflow.
Private by default
Files processed on AWS, never used for training. Temporary storage, auto-deleted.
Zero friction
No downloads, no registration for images. Upload → get text. That simple.
127,438
Documents processed
100+
Languages
96.2%
Accuracy (printed)
<3s
Avg. image processing
Under the hood
FastOCR runs on AWS serverless infrastructure. Upload goes to S3, Lambda sends each page to Google Vision for recognition, results are assembled into a searchable PDF with correct RTL positioning. The whole pipeline is automated — no human sees your documents.
AI Polish uses Gemini to cross-reference the original image against OCR output, fixing character confusion and restoring diacritics without hallucinating content.
Pricing philosophy
Image OCR is free forever. No registration, no limits. PDF processing requires a free account (3 PDFs/month). Need more? Pro is $9.99/month for 100 PDFs.
I built this because I needed it. If it helps researchers, students, and professionals working with difficult documents — even better.