Image to Text Converter

What Image to Text Works Best On

It reads printed and typed text. It is not made for handwriting.

Get Better Results: Photo Tips

• Hold the phone straight over the page, not at an angle
• Use daylight or a bright room; avoid your own shadow
• Fill the frame with the text; crop extra table or background
• Tap to focus before you click, so letters are sharp
• One column at a time works better than a full newspaper page
• For a crooked page, straighten it first with the Document Scanner, then upload the result

English, Hindi or Both?

Picking the wrong language gives wrong letters. If the text looks like random symbols, switch the language and it reads the image again.

Copy Text From a PDF

• Text PDFs (made on a computer): you can usually select and copy the text directly in any PDF reader
• Scanned PDFs are pictures of pages, so the text cannot be selected
• Turn the pages into images with PDF to JPG, then upload them here
• Need only some pages? Pick them first with Split PDF

Join Broken Lines

• Text from a page keeps the page's line breaks, so sentences break in the middle
• Tick "Join broken lines into paragraphs" to make each paragraph one line
• Handy before pasting into WhatsApp, an email or a Word file
• Need to count the words? Paste it into the Word Counter

Common Uses

Why It Is Safe for Private Documents

• Most free OCR sites upload your image to their server
• Here, the text reader is downloaded to your browser and runs on your device
• Your image and text are never sent anywhere
• The language data is saved in your browser after the first use, so the next time is faster

Why It Takes a Few Seconds

• The first time, your browser downloads the reader and language data (about 3 MB for English)
• A clear screenshot usually reads in a few seconds after that
• Large phone photos take longer; older phones are slower
• Keep the page open until the bar reaches 100%