Copy the words out of a document when selecting them by hand is painful — all of it at once, page by page.
This copies the real text out of the document. A scanned page holds a picture instead, and has no text to take.
Drop it on the box above or pick it from your files.
It appears in one box, with a marker where each page starts if you want one.
Copy the lot to your clipboard, or save it as a plain text file.
A PDF made from a document — exported from a word processor, printed to PDF, generated by a system — carries the real words inside it, and they come straight out.
A PDF made by scanning or photographing paper carries a picture of the words instead. Nothing here can copy those, because as far as the file is concerned there is no text on the page, only ink.
Reading those needs text recognition, which is a different job and not built yet. If your document comes out empty, that is what it is telling you.
No. The work happens inside this tab, on your own machine. Open your browser's network tab while you use the tool, there is no request carrying your file.
None set by us. Very large files are limited only by your device's memory, and we warn you before that becomes a problem.
No, and there is no daily limit either. There is nothing to sign up for.
It is a scan — a picture of a page rather than a page. There is no text in it to take.
No. You get the words in reading order, not the columns, tables and spacing around them.