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macOS and Windows. Your files stay on your computer.
macOS and Windows. Your files stay on your computer.
Turn a photo of a receipt, a letter or a scanned page into a PDF you can search, select and copy from. Each image becomes its own one-page PDF that still looks like your picture. The text is read on your computer.
0 words90 wordsReal result from the recording: 1 photo, English, searchable PDF
Intel Mac or need help installing? All downloads
Hangar runs on Mac and Windows. Open this page there to download.
The real app with a real file, recorded on screen.
Where the AI runs
Turning photos of documents into PDFs online means uploading them. Hangar reads the text on your computer.
Photos and scans: JPG, PNG, HEIC, TIFF and more.
Tesseract runs inside Hangar. English is built in; other languages download once.
A searchable PDF ending in -ocr.pdf, plus a TXT file if you want one.
Upload to a serverNot part of the path. Your file and the result never leave this computer.
Languages
Ready the moment you install.
Best for: English documents, from day one.
Add only the languages your documents use.
Best for: French, German, Spanish, Hindi, Japanese and the rest.
Recognition runs with Tesseract inside Hangar. Each language downloads once, is checked, and stays on this computer.
Hard cases
Recognition is only as good as the photo.
In the run in the recording, it read 96.5% of the words in a photographed page correctly. Clear scans read best.
Even light and a straight page help. Shadows and steep angles cost words.
Not what this recognizer is built for. Expect gaps.
Check the ones that matter, such as amounts and reference numbers.
How it works
JPG, PNG, HEIC, TIFF and other common formats. Sideways phone photos are set upright for you.
English is built in. Each of the other 36 is a one-time download of about 3 to 15 MB.
One PDF per image, with -ocr in the name. Add a .txt file of the text too if you want it.
New to Hangar? How to run a tool, step by step
What you get
The recognized text sits as an invisible layer on top of your image. The page looks the same, but you can search it, select words and copy them.
One page per image, text selectable.
Best for receipts, letters and records you need to find later.
Turn on Export recognized text for a .txt beside each PDF.
Best when you also want to paste the words somewhere.
Tick several languages for one page.
Best for bilingual forms and travel documents.
Every setting, explained in the Image to PDF guide Languages · Export recognized text
The alternative
Online OCR sites work in any browser and often combine several images into one PDF. They also ask you to upload receipts, contracts and IDs.
Who uses it
Turn a month of receipt photos into PDFs you can search by shop or amount.
Make every scanned letter in a batch searchable before it goes into the archive.
Photograph pages in a reading room and copy exact lines out of them later.
One app, one payment
The same app converts, compresses, resizes and cleans up photos, and does the same kind of work for PDFs, video and audio. One payment covers every tool.
A typical routine
Crop the desk out of each phone photo, make every page a searchable PDF, then merge them into one document.
Every tool is free for 3 days, with no account and no card. After that, Hangar is a one-time payment from $45, with updates for the version you buy. There is no subscription.
Yes. In Hangar it is Image OCR, in the Text section of the Image tab. Images to PDF is a different tool that bundles many images into one PDF.
No. It sets sideways photos upright, but it does not straighten an angled page or remove shadows. Shoot pages straight on, in even light.
Yes. The text on each image is recognized and added as a selectable layer, so you can search and copy from the PDF.
Image to PDF makes one PDF per image. For a single PDF, use Images to PDF and choose All in one, or merge these PDFs with Merge PDF.
No. The text recognition runs on your own machine, so the images never leave it.
No. Your files are processed on your computer and never sent anywhere. Hangar sends anonymous usage counts to improve the app, never file names or contents, and you can turn that off in Settings.
Yes. A license works on any mix of Mac and Windows computers. Solo covers 1 computer, Crew 3 and Fleet 10.
Then pay once, from $45, for every tool and the updates for your version. No subscription. 30-day refund.See plans
Intel Mac or need help installing? All downloads
Hangar runs on Mac and Windows. Open this page there to download.