Is AI OCR and translation included on the free plan?

Casual includes 25 AI / translation pages per month. Daily and Expert raise that allowance. Convert API charges 1 credit per page when AI reading or translation is on. Standard convert does not use AI credits.

Can I batch-convert multiple scanned images at once?

In the workspace, upload images one at a time through the editor; for bulk OCR pipelines, call POST /api/v1/convert per image with use_ai=true from a script or the Convert API in a loop.

Is there a file size limit for image OCR to Markdown?

Images and scans up to 50 MB are accepted, whether uploaded in the workspace or via the Convert API.

Online converter

AI OCR images & scans to Markdown — translate too

Phone photos of whiteboards, receipts, and paper scans are not selectable text. FileWorks AI reading performs OCR-style extraction and returns Markdown you can edit, translate into 19 languages, and download — without a separate OCR or translation app.

Open workspace and convert

What you get

PNG, JPEG, WebP, BMP, and TIFF uploads
AI reading for scans and photo documents
Translate OCR text into 19 languages in the same pass
Bill against workspace AI / translation allowance or API credits

How to convert

Upload an image or scanned page.
Enable AI reading and optionally choose a translation language.
Convert, edit Markdown, then download or re-export.

Tips to get clean Markdown

For whiteboard photos, shoot straight-on if possible — heavy perspective skew causes more OCR mistakes than messy handwriting does.
Receipts and forms with small print convert more reliably at higher photo resolution — a blurry 1 MB photo OCRs worse than a sharp 5 MB one, even though both are well under the 50 MB limit.
If you're OCR-ing a multi-page scan, convert and save each page's Markdown separately so one bad page doesn't force you to redo the whole batch.

How this compares to typical online converters

A photo of a page is pixels, not text — the gap between tools shows up here.

Aspect	FileWorks	Typical free converter
Handwriting / low-light scans	AI reading handles moderately messy scans and phone photos	Basic OCR tools often fail outside clean, flat scans
Formats	PNG, JPEG, WebP, BMP, and TIFF in one flow	Frequently JPEG/PNG only
Translation	Optional translation of OCR'd text into 19 languages	Needs a second translation tool
Output	Structured Markdown (headings/lists where detectable), not just a text blob	Usually plain, unstructured text
Batch use	Script per-image calls over the Convert API	One image at a time in a browser UI

Who uses this converter

Digitizing paper forms, receipts, and whiteboard photos into editable Markdown
Developers OCR-ing scanned archives for search or RAG ingestion
Teams translating photographed foreign-language documents in the same pass

Automate it with the Convert API

Same conversion, scripted. Auth with a fw_live_ API key from Profile; standard conversion is free up to the monthly page cap.

curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -F file=@scan.png \
  -F target=markdown \
  -F use_ai=true \
  -F download=true \
  -o scan.md \
  https://api.fileworks.ai/api/v1/convert

Full API docs — curl, Python, and JavaScript examples →

Frequently asked questions

Is AI OCR and translation included on the free plan?: Casual includes 25 AI / translation pages per month. Daily and Expert raise that allowance. Convert API charges 1 credit per page when AI reading or translation is on. Standard convert does not use AI credits.
Can I batch-convert multiple scanned images at once?: In the workspace, upload images one at a time through the editor; for bulk OCR pipelines, call POST /api/v1/convert per image with use_ai=true from a script or the Convert API in a loop.
Is there a file size limit for image OCR to Markdown?: Images and scans up to 50 MB are accepted, whether uploaded in the workspace or via the Convert API.