OCR SDK

Turn documents into searchable PDF files with the Scanbot OCR SDK

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Offline OCR for mobile and web apps

The Scanbot OCR SDK is an Optical Character Recognition engine for mobile and web applications. Replace manual data entry with automatic data extraction from images: The SDK can deliver searchable PDF documents and plain text.

The SDK runs entirely offline, without server connections, ensuring data privacy and security.

Available for mobile and web development platforms

Available for mobile and web development platforms

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Frequently Asked Questions

How does the Scanbot SDK OCR Text Scanner work?

Our OCR Text Scanner is based on machine learning. It extracts text from all standard documents and turns them into an editable and searchable PDF format, which is ready for fully-automated processing.

Which languages does the OCR Text Scanner SDK support?

Our OCR Text Scanner SDK supports more than 100 languages in a variety of scripts, including Cyrillic, Arabic, and a number of Asian character sets.

On which platforms can I implement the OCR Text Scanner?

Scanbot SDK’s OCR Text Scanner module is suitable for native iOS & Android development, and all common hybrid development platforms.

How does Scanbot SDK guarantee data privacy, given that documents often contain sensitive data?

The OCR Text Scanner operates exclusively offline, using only on-device intelligence. This way, your data is never tracked or sent to external servers.