Image to Text (OCR)

Yes, it’s free with no sign-up and no daily cap. It reads one image at a time, and images must be under 12 MB, because larger files can run out of memory in the browser, especially on phones.

No. Text recognition runs in your browser with the open-source Tesseract.js engine, so your image never reaches our server. The engine and the language data are downloaded from a public CDN the first time you use them, which is why the first scan is slower.

Choose the language, drop the image in and wait for the progress bar. The extracted text appears in an editable box; click Copy to put it on your clipboard or Download .txt to save it. Fix any misread characters before using the text.

OCR works best on sharp, well-lit, high-contrast printed text that’s straight rather than tilted. Blurry phone shots, fancy fonts, handwriting and text over busy backgrounds often come out garbled or aren’t detected. Crop to the text area, choose the right language and try a clearer image.

You can choose English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Turkish, Russian, Ukrainian, Arabic, Hindi, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese or Indonesian. Tick + English to recognize English words mixed into another language.

This tool reads image files such as JPG, PNG and WebP; for a PDF, use a PDF to text tool or save the page as an image first. Handwriting recognition is limited, since the engine is trained mainly on printed text, so neat block letters work far better than cursive.