Image to Text (OCR) - Extract Text from Pictures

Extract text from images, screenshots, photos of documents. Supports multiple languages. Browser-based, private.

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PNG, JPG, GIF, BMP, WebP

Language

Select the language of text in your image

Tips for Better Results

Use high-resolution, clear images
Ensure good contrast between text and background
Straighten skewed or rotated text before uploading
Select the correct language for non-English text
Crop to focus on the text area only

Extracted Text

Privacy & Security

All OCR processing happens locally in your browser using Tesseract.js. Your images and extracted text never leave your device and are not uploaded to any server. First-time use downloads OCR language data (~15MB) which is cached for offline use.

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Frequently Asked Questions

OCR is technology that converts images of text into editable digital text. It recognizes characters in photos, screenshots, scanned documents, and extracts them as machine-readable text you can copy and edit.

This tool supports English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and many other languages. Select your language from the dropdown for best accuracy.

Use high-resolution images with clear, sharp text and good contrast. Ensure text is straight and not skewed. Crop the image to focus on the text area. Select the correct language that matches your document.

The OCR engine works best with printed text. Handwriting recognition has limited accuracy, especially for cursive or stylized handwriting. Clear block letters may work better than cursive.

First-time use downloads OCR data (about 15MB) which takes a few seconds. After that, processing time depends on image size and device speed—typically 2-10 seconds for a standard document page.

Yes. All OCR processing happens locally in your browser using Tesseract.js. Your images and extracted text never leave your device or get uploaded to any server.

PNG, JPG/JPEG, GIF, BMP, and WebP formats are supported. For PDF files with images, use a PDF to image converter first, or use a dedicated PDF OCR tool.

Yes. Screenshots work perfectly for OCR. This is ideal for copying text from videos, non-selectable PDFs, error messages, social media posts, or any on-screen content.

OCR accuracy depends on image quality. Blurry, low-resolution, or low-contrast images produce more errors. Try improving image quality, increasing resolution, or adjusting contrast before OCR.

This tool processes one image at a time. Process each image individually, or use dedicated batch OCR software for large-volume document processing.

Image to Text (OCR) - Extract Text from Pictures

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