Image to Text

Drop in a photo, a screenshot or a scanned PDF, or paste a screenshot straight from the clipboard, and get the words as text you can copy, edit and save. The reader runs on your own device, reads English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and Hindi, and handles JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC and multi-page scanned PDFs, many files at once.

How it works

Image to Text is a web page that does its work on your own device. The file you choose is opened by your browser, changed there and saved from there; it is never sent to a server, so there is no copy of it anywhere to delete, no queue and no waiting for an upload. Most online tools of this kind send your file to their servers and work on it there, and many keep it for a while. This one does not. There is no account, no watermark and no limit on how often you use it, and the result downloads the moment it is ready.

Straight to one job

Extract Text From Image · JPG to Text · Screenshot to Text

How it reads the text

The page loads a text-recognition engine into your browser the first time you use it, about 7 MB including English, and then reads each picture on your own device. It finds the lines of text, then reads each line with a neural network trained on printed text in that language. Nothing is uploaded: once the reader is ready you can go offline and it still works.

Getting the best result

Pick the language the text is written in: the reader uses it to know which letters and words to expect. For a page that mixes two languages, pick a pair, such as English and Spanish. Small screenshots are enlarged before reading, which helps with tiny type. Check names, numbers and codes by eye before you use them.

Scanned PDFs

A PDF made by a scanner or a phone app holds pictures of pages, not text, so copying from it gives nothing. Drop the PDF here and each page is drawn at print resolution and read, up to 50 pages at a time. For a PDF you can already select text in, PDF to Text is faster and exact.

What it does

• Photos, screenshots and scanned PDFs
• Paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V
• English and six more languages
• Many pictures at once
• Join lines into paragraphs
• Copy or download as a text file

Questions

How do I copy text from a picture?

Drop the picture into the box, or paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V. The words appear below as plain text, ready to copy or download.

Are my pictures uploaded?

No. The reader runs in your browser on your own device, so the pictures and the text never leave it.

Can it read a scanned PDF?

Yes. Each page is drawn at print resolution and read, up to 50 pages at a time.

Can it read handwriting?

Only very neat block letters, and not reliably. It is trained on printed and on-screen text.

Which languages can it read?

English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and Hindi, plus English mixed with Spanish or Hindi.

Why is some text wrong?

Blur, glare, small type, curved pages and fancy fonts cause mistakes. A sharper, flatter, evenly lit picture fixes most of them.

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