Search a pile of scans like it's Google.
Two thousand pages of image-only PDFs and one name to find. Drop the pile, type the query, and get every hit - file, page number, snippet - with each file downloadable as a searchable PDF. Free, no signup.
Drop the whole pile - OCR starts right away
Scans, faxes, photos - up to 10 files, 14MB each. Nothing is searchable? It will be.
No pile at hand?
Load five fictional scans - a 1994 memo, a fax, council minutes, a contract page, and a handwritten note - then try searching Henderson. It appears in exactly three of them.
Why this doesn't exist elsewhere
Single files get OCR tools. Piles get you.
Every converter on the internet will make one PDF searchable. But the actual job - opposing counsel's two thousand image-only pages, thirty years of scanned minutes, a records box someone digitized in 2009 - is a pile, and the question is always "where does this name appear?" This page answers that question directly, and hands the searchable files back as a byproduct.
Paralegals and litigation support
"Find every mention of the Henderson account" across a production set - with page numbers you can cite.
Clerks and records officers
Decades of scanned minutes and permits, searched in one pass instead of opened one by one.
Journalists and investigators
A records-request dump of scanned memos becomes searchable the moment it lands.
The sample pile is fictional and free to reuse - link to the files directly: Typewriter memo (1994) (PDF) · Faxed order form (PDF) · Council meeting minutes (PDF) · Contract excerpt (PDF) · Handwritten note (PDF)
Questions people with boxes of scans ask
Up to 10 files per session in the free tool, up to 14MB each. A free DocuPipe account raises those limits substantially.
Yes. Rotated and skewed pages are straightened automatically before recognition, and the OCR layer is built for fax-quality input - that is most of what this engine reads all day.
Printed text reads reliably; handwriting depends on the hand. Clear notes often work - the handwritten sample in the pile is there so you can see for yourself.
The OCR runs on DocuPipe servers over an encrypted connection; the searching happens entirely in your browser against the returned text, so queries are never sent anywhere. Files are processed on SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certified, HIPAA compliant infrastructure and never used to train models.
That is the product behind this page: DocuPipe ingests entire archives, OCRs and classifies every document, and extracts the fields you care about - so the next search is a database query, not a dig.
Run it at scale
Searching is step one. Never digging again is the product.
DocuPipe ingests whole archives - boxes, network drives, records rooms - OCRs everything, classifies each document, and extracts the fields that matter into structured data your systems can query.
Free tier included. Takes about a minute to set up.
SOC 2 certified · ISO 27001 · HIPAA compliant · Encrypted in transit and at rest · Never used to train models