ZANCTA - OCR, PDF & image tools — run in your browser, no uploads

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OCR images in your browser. English is free. Premium adds Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Spanish, French, German, and scanned PDF OCR — no upload.

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I built ZANCTA because I kept needing to do simple things with files — merge a couple of PDFs, pull text out of a screenshot, strip location data from a photo before sharing — and every tool made me upload the file to a server first. For documents and images with personal or work info in them, that never felt right. So every tool here runs entirely in your browser: your files never leave your device, there's no upload and no server processing, and you don't even need an account to start. Image OCR is the flagship — text extraction from JPG/PNG/WebP runs locally, English is free, and Premium adds more languages (Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Spanish, French, German) plus scanned-PDF OCR. There's also local PDF merge/split/compress, text extraction, background removal, and EXIF cleaning. Would love feedback from makers here, especially on the free-vs-premium split and whether local-only processing is a compelling enough hook.