Copy text from photos, scans and screenshots with OCR in your browser. English, Hindi and 22 more languages; copy the text or save a .txt file. Nothing is uploaded.
Have a scanned PDF instead? Use OCR PDF to make it searchable, or PDF to Text if its text can already be selected.
Works in your browser. What you paste or upload is processed on your device.
Choose, drop or paste up to 10 photos, scans or screenshots. JPG, PNG, WebP and iPhone HEIC all work.
Select the language of the text. For mixed text, select up to three, for example Hindi and English.
Keep Document for pages and letters, choose Single block for receipts, or Scattered for signs and screenshots.
Press Extract text. The language data downloads the first time, then each image is read with a progress bar.
Check and edit the text, join lines into paragraphs if you are pasting into a document, then copy it or download a .txt file.
Image to text, also called OCR (optical character recognition), reads the letters in a picture and turns them into text you can copy, edit and search. This tool uses Tesseract, the open-source OCR engine (Apache-2.0 licence), compiled to WebAssembly by tesseract.js, so it runs inside your browser. It reads English, Hindi and 22 more languages, including Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Urdu, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean, and you can combine up to three for mixed text such as Hindi with English.
Before reading, each image is cleaned up for OCR: it is turned to greyscale, the contrast is stretched so faded print stands out, and small screenshots are enlarged so the letters are big enough. That makes a real difference with phone photos of documents. You can pick a layout (a full document, a single block such as a receipt, or scattered text such as a sign or screenshot), read up to 10 images in one run, then edit the text, join wrapped lines into paragraphs, copy it or download a .txt file.
Honest limits: printed text in good light works best. Handwriting, very stylised fonts, curved or angled pages and blurry photos are often misread, so check the result before you use it. The tool returns plain text only; tables, columns and formatting are not kept. It reads images, not PDF files.
Retyping text from a notice, a receipt, a page of a book or a screenshot is slow and error-prone. OCR gets you an editable copy in seconds, and because this tool runs on your device, private documents such as bills, letters and ID pages are never uploaded to a server.
Something else? Ask the team
No. The OCR engine runs in your browser and the images stay on your device. The engine and language files are downloaded from a public CDN; your images are not sent anywhere.
You get one free run per tool per day, and one run can read up to 10 images. After that, each run costs 10 credits (10 US cents) from a free AI Rank Lab account. Copying, editing and downloading the text after a run is free.
Yes. It reads Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Urdu, and you can combine any of them with English for documents that mix both. Choose the right language before you run it: OCR with the wrong language gives poor results.
Yes. The tool cleans up the photo before reading it. For the best result, lay the page flat, use even light without shadows, hold the phone straight above the page and fill the frame with it.
Only neat, printed-style handwriting, and even then with mistakes. Tesseract is built for printed text, so check handwritten results carefully.
No. It returns plain text. Columns are read in order and table cells come out as lines of text. Use Keep lines to stay close to the original layout, or Join into paragraphs when pasting into a document.
This tool reads images (JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC and similar). For a scanned PDF, use the OCR PDF tool, which reads the pages and gives you a searchable PDF. If you can already select the text in your PDF, PDF to Text extracts it directly.
Yes, in current Safari, Chrome and Firefox. You can take a photo with the camera from the file picker. The first run downloads the OCR engine and language data, so use Wi-Fi if your mobile data is limited.
Each one opens on its own page and works straight away, with no sign-up.
Convert images to Base64 data URI
Convert Base64 string to image
Generate QR codes for any text or URL
AI converts screenshots to HTML/CSS
Explore more free tools:Schema GeneratorMeta Tag GeneratorLLMs.txt GeneratorBrowse all free tools
Image to Text (OCR) is one piece of the puzzle. See how ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews actually view your brand, and get a prioritised list of fixes, with a free AEO & GEO audit from AI Rank Lab.
Run a free AEO & GEO audit or View pricing.
Site audit
Paste your site. The free audit scores it for SEO, answer engines and generative engines, with the fixes.
