Auto-Reader · OCR API Auto-Reader · OCR API
Shrink a scanned PDF for email — it becomes searchable and selectable in the same step.
Drop a scanned PDF (or page images). We shrink it for email while keeping the page design crisp, and add a selectable text layer so it's searchable. Office files (PPT, Word) — coming soon.
Drop a PDF or images here or · free up to 40MB · any page count
500 pages/day free with an API key — automate PDF compression, OCR and translation from your own code, no daily-cap wall.
Auto-Reader OCR runs on our own GPU hardware instead of a per-page cloud bill, so the marginal cost of compressing a file is close to zero. The free tool is capped at 20 files per day per IP address to keep it sustainable — heavier or automated use moves to the API.
No. Files are processed transiently in memory and are not written to disk or retained after your compressed PDF is returned. This matches the PDPL-compliant handling used across the whole Auto-Reader OCR API — no accounts, no copies kept.
Compressing a scanned PDF runs it through the same OCR pipeline that powers our API. As a side effect, the recognized text is embedded as an invisible, selectable layer on top of each page, so the file becomes searchable and copy-pasteable without changing how it looks.
The free tool is meant for occasional use. For batch or production workloads the same compression runs on the API, billed at 1 credit per page (about $0.001/page) with no daily cap — get a free API key for 500 pages/day (just add an email — no confirmation click).