Scans become searchable text.
Optical character recognition adds an invisible text layer to a scanned page. You can search a word, copy a line, and keep a PDF that other people can actually use — without retyping the document.
The document doesn't need to leave the device for OCR. Recognition, indexing, and search stay with the file on your computer.
Desktop OCR
Read documents in 17 languages — completely offline.
- English
- French
- German
- Spanish
- Italian
- Dutch
- Turkish
- Portuguese
- Polish
- Indonesian
- Russian
- Arabic
OCR runs locally.
Paperly Desktop turns a scan into a searchable PDF on the same machine. Multilingual recognition stays with the file — no cloud OCR service in the middle.
Try Paperly Desktop
Get Paperly for Windows and search the page you just scanned — 17 languages, processed on your computer.