Image to Text
Extract text from any image or pasted screenshot — runs 100% in your browser.
Drop image here or click to select
JPG, PNG, WebP — or paste screenshot (Ctrl+V)
Note: clear, high-contrast images work best. The first recognition downloads a ~2 MB language model.
How to Use Image to Text (OCR)
- Open the tool and select the language of the text in your image (English, Hindi, Spanish, French, or German).
- Upload your image (JPG, PNG, WebP) by dragging and dropping, or simply paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V.
- Wait for the Tesseract OCR engine to load (first use downloads a ~2 MB model) and watch the progress bar as it recognizes the text.
- Copy the extracted text from the output box, or download it as a .txt file for later use.
Benefits of Image to Text (OCR)
- 100% private — the OCR engine runs entirely inside your browser; your images are never uploaded to any server.
- Supports five languages in one tool, including Hindi, making it useful for multilingual documents and forms.
- Paste‑from‑clipboard support means you can quickly grab text from a screenshot without saving a file first.
- No account, no subscription, and works offline after the language model is cached — ideal for on‑the‑go extraction.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can OCR extract text from a photo of a handwritten note?
Tesseract is optimized for printed text. Clear, block‑letter handwriting may yield partial results, but cursive or stylized writing is unlikely to be recognized accurately.
Why is the first recognition slower than later ones?
The tool downloads a language data file (~2 MB) from a CDN on first use per language. Once cached, subsequent recognitions run locally without any download.
Can I use this on a PDF?
Only image files are supported. For a scanned PDF, take a screenshot or convert a page to JPG first, then feed it into the OCR tool.
Is Image to Text (OCR) free and private?
Yes — it is 100% free, needs no sign-up, and everything runs in your browser; your data never leaves your device.