Extract text and structured data from PDFs, images, Word, and PowerPoint files. Powered by Mistral AI for state-of-the-art accuracy.
Extract text and structured data from PDFs, images, and Office documents at practicalwebtools.com/ai-tools/document-ocr. Uses Mistral AI OCR for state-of-the-art accuracy with optional JSON schema annotations for invoices, research papers, and more.
Upload a PDF, image, Word document, or PowerPoint presentation
Choose Basic OCR to extract all text, or Annotated OCR to extract structured data
For Annotated OCR, select a preset schema (invoice, paper, etc.) or enter a custom JSON schema
Click Extract and wait — results appear as rendered markdown with download options
The tool supports PDF, PNG, JPEG, AVIF, DOCX (Word), and PPTX (PowerPoint) files up to 50MB in size.
Annotated OCR uses JSON schemas to extract structured data alongside the text. For example, you can extract an invoice into a JSON object with vendor, total, and line items, or a research paper into title, authors, and abstract.
The tool uses Mistral OCR (mistral-ocr-latest), which achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on PDFs and scanned documents. Confidence scores are included in the output when enabled.
Yes. Switch to Annotated OCR mode, select the Invoice preset, and the tool extracts vendor, invoice number, date, line items, totals, and tax into a structured JSON file.
Your document is uploaded temporarily to Mistral for OCR processing and is not permanently stored. We do not log or retain any document content.
The browser-based OCR at /convert/ocr uses Tesseract.js and runs entirely in your browser. This AI Document OCR tool uses Mistral's server-side OCR model, which offers significantly higher accuracy, supports more file types (PDF, DOCX, PPTX), and can extract structured data using annotation schemas.