Deep OCR
Verified Oct 15, 2026 ActiveFree OCR tool that extracts text from screenshots, scans, and PDFs and lets you clean it up before exporting.
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- 100% Free
No pricing page or paid tier was found; the home page, tools and terms all present the service as free, with uploads in JPG, PNG, GIF or WebP up to a size limit shown in the uploader.
Use tool ↗About Deep OCR
Deep OCR extracts text from images, screenshots, scanned pages, and PDFs, showing the result next to the original file so users can check it against the source. It includes tools for cleaning up common formatting problems before exporting the result as plain text or Markdown, and a batch mode aimed at processing large sets of documents like invoices or academic archives at once. A dedicated Japanese OCR mode is built on the DeepSeek OCR vision-language model. It targets researchers, students, analysts, and knowledge workers who need to turn visual documents into text they can search, copy, or feed into other tools.
- Platforms
- Web
- API
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026
Verified sources
- Home page: free OCR for PDFs, images and screenshots with review, clean-up and export; tools for batch, Japanese and DeepSeek OCR; no pricing link (15 October 2026)deepocr.cc ↗
- Privacy policy: free DeepSeek OCR-powered service, uploads processed temporarily and deleted within 24 hours; policy names the site as deepocrhub.com and gives only a webmail contact (15 October 2026)deepocr.cc ↗
- Terms of service: governing law left as a template placeholder '[Insert Jurisdiction...]' (15 October 2026)deepocr.cc ↗
Is Deep OCR legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Oct 22, 2025 (1 year ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn), looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by DigiCert Inc, valid until Jan 1, 2027Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 15, 2026The site answered
Pros & cons of Deep OCR
Deep OCR is a straightforward, no-cost way to pull text out of images and scans, with a batch mode for bulk document processing that goes beyond a basic single-image OCR tool. The tradeoff for being free is that nobody identifiable stands behind it - the legal pages are templates written for another domain - which matters if you feed it sensitive documents.
Pros
- No cost to use, with no pricing page gating features
- Shows extracted text alongside the source file for easy checking
- Batch mode handles large document sets, not just one file at a time
- Dedicated Japanese OCR mode alongside general multilingual support
Cons
- No company name or ownership disclosed; the only contact is a personal webmail address
- The terms of service still contain an unfilled placeholder where the governing jurisdiction should be
- No independently verified accuracy benchmarks beyond the underlying model's own claims
Best for
- Students and researchers digitizing scanned papers or screenshots
- Anyone processing a batch of invoices, reports, or scanned forms at once
- Users needing Japanese-language OCR specifically
Not for
- Organizations with strict vendor-vetting requirements before uploading sensitive documents
- Users needing guaranteed accuracy on messy handwriting or heavily degraded scans
Watch out: The privacy policy promises uploads are deleted within 24 hours, but it and the terms are written for a different domain and leave the jurisdiction blank, so there is little to enforce that promise against - keep confidential files out.