ArchiveRescue Local browser OCR

Give old documents a second life.

Enhance scanned records, transcribe printed text with open-source OCR, then review and export. Documents are processed in your browser.

01 / Document

Upload a document to begin.

For handwritten records, select one line or cell. This OCR engine is not specialized for handwriting; verify results manually.

Powered by Tesseract.js. First use downloads OCR model data, not your document.

02 / Review & preserve

Your scan will appear here

Drag over a line or table cell to select a region before OCR.

Experimental browser demo for printed text. The Python version on GitHub also offers optional handwritten-line recognition. OCR is fallible; preserve and review the original.