Extracting Japanese text from scanned PDFs — including kanji, hiragana, and katakana — is supported with the Japanese Tesseract language model.
Navigate to the OCR tool.
Choose Japanese (日本語) from the language picker. The Tesseract Japanese model supports all Japanese scripts.
Tip: For business documents with mixed Japanese-English content, select Japanese as the primary language — Tesseract handles bilingual text effectively.
Click Scan All Pages. Save the searchable Japanese PDF or extract the text for use elsewhere.
Tesseract has limited support for vertical text layouts. Horizontal Japanese text (the common format in business documents) is recognized accurately.
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