“I asked a 1,000-page book a very specific question.
It answered. In full. With the page numbers.
I checked. It was right there.”
— That is what IllumiLib makes possible for every book in your library.
Stop wondering if AI hallucinated when you ask questions of your books. See exactly where AI found its answer, and verify it for yourself. Enterprise-grade OCR turns your scanned or photographed pages into clean, AI RAG-ready PDF and TXT files — use optimally with IllumiLib Personal Library or your favorite AI RAG chat interface.
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See It In Action
Every answer, shown beside the page it came from.
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How It Works
IllumiLib is designed to take a physical book from shelf to searchable, quotable, and verifiable without asking you to learn a complicated process.
Your book, your scanner, your phone
Use a flatbed scanner, document scanner, smartphone camera, or IllumiLib Capture (for desktop screenshots). IllumiLib is built for real libraries, not perfect studio photos. Scan an important book for work, or one of your books for school. It even handles grandma's hand-written recipes.
What you get
You upload page images and move on.
Enterprise OCR without the cleanup chore
Specify one or more languages or IllumiLib will auto-detect. Got mathematical equations or formulas? We extract those too — rendered as LaTeX notation inside your Markdown output file — along with checkboxes, radio buttons, font-styles, and more. IllumiLib converts your page images into a clean PDF and TXT file, built for retrieval-augmented AI tools and assembled the way you want them.
What you get
Minutes later, your book is machine-readable.
Use your favorite AI tool with confidence
Upload an output file to your favorite LLM chat tool and ask away ... or use IllumiLib Personal Library and see your scanned book's pages along side your questions and AI responses. Then check AI's answers for yourself. Want to convert your text output file to an audio book in mp3 format? Use IllumiLib Listen — results are amazingly accurate and sound astonishingly human.
What you get
Faster insight, with verification built in.
“From shelf to searchable in minutes.”
The Honest Comparison
Bundled scanner software and free tools like Tesseract convert an image to text. That is a different job than turning a book into something an AI can be trusted with.
| Bundled / Tesseract OCR | IllumiLib | |
|---|---|---|
| Accuracy | Untested, degrades on real pages | ✦~98–99.1% composite on printed text |
| Handwriting | Print only | ✦Recognized and flagged at word level |
| Math | Mangled into garbage | ✦Preserved as LaTeX, Pandoc-ready |
| Languages | One, manual packs | ✦200+, auto-detected |
| Output | One flat file | ✦Searchable PDF + TXT + structured Markdown |
| Error handling | Silent, one-shot | ✦Confidence scores, uncertain-word review pass |
| Structured data | Discarded | ✦Checkboxes, radio buttons, font styles |
| 1,000-page book | Hours, CPU-bound, serial | ✦Minutes, concurrent cloud processing |
| Bad scans | Processes anyway, returns garbage | ✦DPI gate warns before you waste the time |
Accuracy
Bundled / Tesseract OCR
Untested, degrades on real pages
IllumiLib
✦~98–99.1% composite on printed text
Handwriting
Bundled / Tesseract OCR
Print only
IllumiLib
✦Recognized and flagged at word level
Math
Bundled / Tesseract OCR
Mangled into garbage
IllumiLib
✦Preserved as LaTeX, Pandoc-ready
Languages
Bundled / Tesseract OCR
One, manual packs
IllumiLib
✦200+, auto-detected
Output
Bundled / Tesseract OCR
One flat file
IllumiLib
✦Searchable PDF + TXT + structured Markdown
Error handling
Bundled / Tesseract OCR
Silent, one-shot
IllumiLib
✦Confidence scores, uncertain-word review pass
Structured data
Bundled / Tesseract OCR
Discarded
IllumiLib
✦Checkboxes, radio buttons, font styles
1,000-page book
Bundled / Tesseract OCR
Hours, CPU-bound, serial
IllumiLib
✦Minutes, concurrent cloud processing
Bad scans
Bundled / Tesseract OCR
Processes anyway, returns garbage
IllumiLib
✦DPI gate warns before you waste the time
“Bundled OCR is a text dump. IllumiLib is a pipeline built so an AI answer can be traced back to a page.”
The Product Line
Capture your pages, turn them into AI-ready text, then put that library to work. Personal Library is where it all comes together.
Step 3
Ask questions across your own books. Every quote is checked against the source — a fabricated one is stripped before you ever see it.
Where your library lives and answers your questions.
Explore Personal Library →Hotkey screen-region capture that turns any book, article, or document on your screen into page images ready for OCR.
Step 1 — where your library starts.
Cloud OCR that turns your page images into searchable, AI-ready PDF, TXT, and Markdown files.
Step 2 — turns pages into text.
Converts your book's text output into an MP3 audiobook you can listen to anywhere.
Step 4 — turns your library into audio.
Every book you own. Every argument, every nuance, every page — available the moment you need it.
Every word gets a confidence score — anything under 90% is flagged uncertain rather than passed off as fact. Illegible text is tagged, never invented, and the searchable PDF keeps your original scan beneath an invisible text layer so every word traces back to a real page. Scans below 300 DPI are flagged before processing begins.
A 1,000-page book typically completes in just a few minutes. Your entire library, ready in a weekend.
Processed on Google Cloud Vision — the OCR infrastructure trusted by enterprise, government, and healthcare organizations. Built for serious documents.
Simple, Honest Pricing
No subscriptions. No monthly minimums. Every job is priced on the number of pages you submit. A minimum charge of $1.50 applies per job.
Base
A 300-page book costs $6.00.
Base + Premium
A 300-page book costs $10.50.
Pay only for what you process. No subscriptions, no minimums.
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