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Handwritten & Scanned Document OCR

Turn handwritten and scanned pages into editable text, exactly as written.

Upload a photograph, scan, PDF or Word file and Qaaf AI reads what is written and returns it as editable text in the original language and script. Built for the documents ordinary OCR gives up on: handwritten Urdu and Arabic manuscripts, marginal notes, mixed scripts on the same page, and old madrasa records. Headings, lists, tables and poetry keep their structure, and anything genuinely unreadable is marked rather than guessed at.

Try it free — no account needed

Upload a file and see the quality for yourself. You get 100 free credits right now, with no sign-up and no card. When they run out, a free account gives you 200 more.

Click to upload a photo, scan, PDF or Word file

JPG, PNG, HEIC, TIFF, PDF or DOCX — a single page or a whole book

The text comes back in its original language.

This tool transcribes rather than translates — Urdu stays Urdu, Arabic stays Arabic. Headings, lists, tables and poetry keep their structure, and anything genuinely unreadable is marked [illegible] rather than guessed at.

Need it in another language? Run the result through the Book Translator afterwards.

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