Free Online Image to Text OCR Converter

Add a JPG, PNG, WebP, BMP, TIFF or GIF image up to 50 MB, pick the language of the text and press Extract Text. The text appears next to your image. Copy it, or download it as a TXT file.

It reads 31 languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Thai, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese and Korean. Pick one language per run. Its data file, under 4 MB, downloads from a public CDN the first time and stays saved in your browser.

It depends on the image. Sharp photos and screenshots of printed text read well; blurry, tilted or busy images do not. Check the confidence score after each run, then compare names, numbers and prices with your original.

It is the engine's own estimate, from 0 to 100%, of how sure it is about the text it found. The badge changes color below 80% and again below 50%. A high score is not a guarantee, so check names, numbers and prices before you use them.

Not reliably. The tool is built for printed and typed text and has no handwriting mode. Handwriting often comes out with many wrong letters, so compare the result with your image before you rely on it.

Not directly. The tool reads JPG, PNG, WebP, BMP, TIFF and GIF images. For a scanned PDF, save each page as an image with our PDF to Image tool, then read the pages one at a time. Convert a HEIC photo to JPG first. An animated GIF is read from its first frame only.

Plain text. Copy Text puts the whole result on your clipboard, and Download .txt saves a file named after your image, such as photo-ocr.txt. Fonts, columns and tables are not kept. The result box is read-only, so make edits after you paste the text.

No, the tool reads one image per run. When you are done, press Start Over and add the next image. There is no cap on how many images you read this way, and a language you already used loads faster the second time.

Check the language first, since the tool only reads the one you picked. Then look at the image: sideways photos, tiny text and low contrast cause most errors. Rotate the photo upright, crop it to the text, or use a sharper copy, then press Re-extract.

Yes. Your image is read by the OCR engine inside your browser tab, and the text stays there until you copy or download it. The page loads the engine and language data from a public CDN and records basic usage stats, like the language picked and run time, never the image or its text.

No. There is no account, no login and no daily limit, and the text comes out with no watermark. Open the page, add an image up to 50 MB and press Extract Text, and the text shows up in the same tab.