Educator Edition · Documents and OCR

Import Word, PDF, and text files (and scanned PDFs)

Use my document reads DOCX, PDF, and UTF-8 TXT files locally. Turn on English OCR before importing scanned PDFs.

Limits in version 0.9

  • Up to 12 documents per session and 1.5 million extracted characters in total
  • Up to 20 MB per file, 100 PDF pages, and 500,000 extracted characters
  • Imports cancel after 30 seconds; OCR imports have five minutes
  • OCR reads up to 10 scanned pages per file

Scanned PDFs

Check English OCR before importing. OCR runs on your computer and can misread words, so inspect the text preview.

Not supported

Older .doc files and password-protected files. Save them as .docx or an unprotected PDF first.

Imported documents are kept only for the current session and are not included in workspace saves.

Last updated October 7, 2026