Image to Text (OCR)
Extract text from any image using OCR technology. Supports 16+ languages including English, French, Chinese, Arabic, and more.
Select the language of text in your image for better accuracy.
Drop images here or click to upload
Supports PNG, JPG, WebP, BMP, GIF, TIFF — Multiple files allowed
Your images never leave your browser — OCR runs locally
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About This Tool
Extract text from images with on-device OCR — screenshots of receipts, scanned documents, photos of signs, slides from a lecture. Because the recognition runs locally via WebAssembly, sensitive documents (invoices, IDs, medical letters) never leave your computer. Results come out as selectable, copyable text with basic structure preserved, ready to paste into notes, emails or spreadsheets.
How to Use This Tool
- Drop a clear image — JPG, PNG or WebP (screenshots of text give the best accuracy).
- Wait a moment while the local OCR engine loads and processes (first run downloads a ~5 MB engine to your browser cache).
- Review the extracted text in the results panel.
- Copy all, or select a portion to copy.
- For multi-column layouts, crop the image first to one column — accuracy improves noticeably.
Advantages & Use Cases
Digitize receipts for expense tracking, pull an address from a photo of a business card, transcribe a whiteboard photo after a meeting, or grab quotes from scanned book pages for citations. Support teams extract error text from user screenshots for tickets.
Supported Formats & Recommendations
- Straight, high-contrast, 300-DPI-equivalent images recognize best; avoid glare and skew.
- PNG screenshots of text outperform photos of paper; if photographing, fill the frame and steady the light.
- Handwriting: printed handwriting works partially; cursive is unreliable — OCR is not magic.
How We Test This Tool
A release passes when a 20-word printed screenshot transcribes at ≥98% character accuracy, a photographed receipt keeps digits intact (amounts must never be off by a digit), and processing of a 2 MB image completes under 10 seconds on a mid-range laptop.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is my document content sent to a server?
No — the OCR engine runs in your browser. Load the page once, then go offline: recognition still works, proving nothing leaves the device.
Which languages are recognized?
Latin-script languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and more) with automatic detection; accuracy is highest on English and French.
Why did numbers come out wrong on my receipt?
Low resolution, glare or skew. Re-photograph straight-on with even light, or scan at 300 DPI — digits matter more than letters, so verify amounts manually before saving.