๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ Image to Text (OCR) & Text Recognition

Extract text from images, screenshots, photos and scanned documents instantly โ€” free OCR and text recognition, right in your browser.

๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ Image to Text (OCR)

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Drop image here or click to upload

Supports JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP, BMP

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Screenshots

Extract text from screenshots, photos of documents or signs.

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Books & Articles

Digitize text from physical books, magazines and printed documents.

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Receipts & Forms

Extract data from receipts, invoices and forms quickly.

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Image to Text (OCR): Extract Text from Any Image
How OCR works and best practices for accurate text extraction.
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What is Image to Text (OCR)?

Image to Text uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to pull editable text out of a picture. Upload a photo, screenshot, or scanned document, choose the language it's written in, and the tool reads the image and returns the text it finds, ready to copy or download as a .txt file.

How to Use It

Select the image's language from the dropdown (English, Arabic, French, Spanish, and several others are supported, including combined language pairs), then drop an image onto the upload zone or click to choose a file. The tool extracts the text automatically and displays it in an editable box, with buttons to copy it to your clipboard or download it as a text file.

When to Use It

Use it to digitize a page from a book or magazine, pull text out of a screenshot instead of retyping it, capture details from a receipt or form, or extract a quote from a photo of a sign or document. It works on printed text; handwriting accuracy varies with legibility.

Who Benefits

Students digitizing notes or textbook pages, professionals processing receipts and forms, translators working from photographed documents, and anyone who needs text from an image without manually retyping it. Since everything runs in your browser via Tesseract.js, your image is never uploaded anywhere.

Frequently Asked Questions

No. All OCR processing happens locally in your browser using Tesseract.js, an open-source OCR engine. Your image never leaves your device.
The tool supports English, Arabic, French, Spanish, Urdu, Hindi, German, Simplified Chinese, Russian, and a combined English + Arabic mode for mixed-language images. Select the correct language before uploading for the most accurate results.
OCR engines commonly confuse visually similar characters โ€” 0/O, 1/l/I, rn/m โ€” especially in low-resolution or low-contrast images. Clear, well-lit, non-rotated images with standard fonts produce the most accurate results. Always proofread extracted text before using it somewhere accuracy matters, like a legal or financial document.