Image to Text
Extract text from a picture or screenshot. Recognition runs privately in your browser, so the image is never uploaded.
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Extract text from an image or screenshot
Text arrives trapped in pictures constantly. A screenshot of an error message somebody needs in a ticket, a photographed page from a book, a receipt, a WhatsApp forward of a notice, a slide you cannot copy from. Recognition turns the pixels back into characters you can paste, search and edit instead of retyping.
Because the whole process happens in your browser, nothing is uploaded, and that matters more here than it might seem. The images people most want to read text from are often the ones they would least like to send to a server: account pages, salary slips, identity documents, internal systems. You can disconnect the network and the recognition still runs.
Getting a good result is mostly about the input. Fill the frame with the text rather than photographing a page from across a desk, keep the camera square to the paper, and avoid shadows falling across the words. Choosing the correct language is not optional either, since the engine uses it to decide between characters that look alike, and a Hindi page analysed as English will come back as nonsense.
Simple, practical guidance
How to use Image to Text
Recognition runs in your own browser. The image is analysed locally, letter shapes are matched to characters in the language you pick, and the text appears for you to copy or download.
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Upload an image that contains text.
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Choose the language of the text.
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Run recognition and wait for it to finish.
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Review, copy, or download the extracted text.
Get a better result
Accuracy follows the image. Straight, printed text at a reasonable size with good contrast is read almost perfectly, and picking the right language matters as much as the resolution does.
Know how your file is handled
The recognition engine runs inside your browser tab, so a screenshot of a dashboard, a bank page or an identity document is never uploaded anywhere.
Check before you share
Handwriting is not reliably readable, and low resolution photographs, stylised fonts, patterned backgrounds and heavily tilted captures all reduce accuracy sharply.
Questions people ask
Image to Text FAQ
Which images work, language choice, handwriting, and copying the result out.
How do I extract text from an image?
Upload a JPG, PNG or WebP file, choose the language of the text, run the recognition and wait for it to finish, then copy the result or download it as a text file.
Is my image uploaded to a server?
No. The recognition engine runs inside your browser, so the picture never leaves your device. That makes it safe for screenshots of account pages and photographs of identity documents.
Can it read handwriting?
Not reliably. The engine is trained on printed characters, so neat block capitals sometimes come through while ordinary cursive generally does not. Treat any handwritten result as a draft to check.
Why is the accuracy poor?
Usually resolution or framing. Text that occupies only a small part of a photograph has very few pixels per character. Get closer, keep the camera square to the page, avoid shadows, and confirm you selected the right language.
Which languages are supported?
A range of scripts is available in the language selector, including English and Indian languages. Choosing correctly is important because the engine uses the language to resolve characters that look similar to each other.
Can it handle multiple languages in one image?
Mixed text is harder, since one language model is applied at a time. If a page is half English and half Hindi, running it twice and keeping the better half of each result often works best.
What about a whole scanned PDF rather than one image?
Use OCR PDF, which processes every page and writes a searchable text layer back into the document instead of giving you loose text. OCR PDF
My PDF already has text. Do I need this?
No. If you can select words in your PDF reader, the text is already there and PDF to Text will extract it exactly, with no recognition errors at all. PDF to Text
Does it keep the layout of the original?
Only loosely. Recognition produces the words in reading order, so columns, tables and indentation are not reconstructed as a layout. You get the text, not the design.
Why is recognition slow on my phone?
The work is done by your own device, so a large image on a modest processor takes time. Cropping to just the region containing the text speeds it up considerably.