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# [How to Extract Text from an Image or Scanned PDF (Arabic & English)](https://confileo-eng.hashnode.dev/how-to-extract-text-from-an-image-or-scanned-pdf-arabic-english?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Got a photo of a document, a screenshot, or a scanned PDF and need the text as editable, copyable text? That's what OCR (Optical Character Recognition) does — and you can do it free in your browser, w

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Building Confileo — free PDF and text tools. I write about Arabic text rendering, Unicode, and the bugs that only show up in right-to-left.

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