More Reliable Bulk Downloads with Smart ZIP Archives

We have improved bulk downloads in OCR, table extraction, and data extraction history. Small selections still behave the way they did before. Larger selections now download as a single ZIP archive, so your files are not silently blocked by the browser.

The Problem with Bulk Downloads

Modern browsers protect users from pages that trigger too many downloads from a single click. This is a useful safety feature, but it can also affect legitimate workflows like exporting many OCR results at once.

In practice, some browsers may allow the first several files and then quietly block the rest. That is a bad experience: it looks like the export finished, but part of the selection may be missing from your downloads folder.

What Changed

1-5 selected files

These continue to download as individual files. If you select a few TXT, Markdown, Word, CSV, or Excel results, the behavior remains familiar and lightweight.

6 or more selected files

Larger batches are automatically packaged into a ZIP archive. The browser only needs to download one file, which avoids the multi-download limits that can interrupt large exports.

You do not need to change anything in your workflow. Use the same history page buttons as before. FreeOCR.AI now chooses the safest download method based on how many valid results are selected.

Built for Reliability

No silent missing files

Large exports now use one ZIP download instead of many browser-triggered downloads.

Duplicate names are handled safely

If multiple results produce the same filename, ZIP entries are renamed with suffixes like -2 and -3 instead of overwriting each other.

Works across output formats

The update applies to OCR TXT, Markdown, Word, extraction CSV and Excel, and table CSV and Excel history exports.

A Small Change That Protects Your Workflow

This update is intentionally practical. We did not want every selection to become a ZIP file, because downloading two or three files individually is still faster and more direct. We also did not want to wait until browser limits are reached, because that creates uncertainty.

The result is a balanced rule: small batches stay simple, while larger batches become dependable archives. It is one of those changes you should not have to think about, but it makes the history page safer for real production work.

Try the improved history downloads in FreeOCR.AI today.

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