Image to Text (OCR) — Free Online
Extract text from an image — photos, screenshots, scans — in 7 languages. Free, no sign-up, no watermark; files deleted immediately after processing.
What is OCR (image to text)?
OCR — optical character recognition — reads the letters in an image and turns them into real, editable text. Instead of retyping what is on a photo, screenshot, or scanned page, OCR extracts the words so you can copy, search, or edit them.
How it works here
Your image is processed on our server with Tesseract, a mature open-source OCR engine, and the recognized text is sent straight back to your browser. The file is deleted immediately after processing — never stored. You can pick the language so accents and non-Latin scripts are read correctly.
When to use it
Copy text from a screenshot, pull a quote out of a photo of a page, digitize a receipt or business card, or get editable text from a scanned document. It saves retyping and makes image text searchable.
What affects accuracy
OCR works best on clear, straight, high-contrast text. Sharp screenshots and clean scans come out very accurately; blurry photos, handwriting, low light, or skewed angles reduce accuracy. Choosing the right language also helps a lot — pick the language the text is actually written in.
How to
- 1 Upload an image (PNG, JPG, WebP, BMP, or TIFF).
- 2 Choose the language of the text in the image.
- 3 Click Extract text, then copy it or download a .txt file. The image is deleted from our server immediately after processing.
FAQ
Which languages are supported? +
English, Thai, French, Spanish, German, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese. Pick the language the text is written in for the best accuracy.
How accurate is it? +
Very accurate on clear, straight, high-contrast text like screenshots and clean scans. Blurry photos, handwriting, low light, or skewed angles reduce accuracy.
Are my images safe? +
The image is processed on our server and deleted immediately after the text is extracted — never stored or shared.
Can it read handwriting? +
No. This recognizes printed/typed text. Handwriting is not reliably supported.
Is it free? +
Yes, completely free — no sign-up and no watermark.
Related tools
- WebP to JPG Converter — Free, Batch
- JPG to WebP Converter — Free, Batch
- JPG to PNG Converter — Free, Batch
- PNG to JPG Converter — Free, Batch
- Image to Base64 — Free Data URI
- Crop Image — Free, In Browser
- Rotate & Flip Image — Free, Batch
- Convert Image — JPG, PNG, WebP (Free)
- Resize Image — Free, Batch
- Compress Image — Free, In Browser