Image to Text (OCR) — Free Online OCR Tool
Extract text from any image using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Upload a photo, screenshot, or scanned document and our tool converts the visible text into editable plain text — free, instant, and private.
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Files stay on your device · Up to 200 MB
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Select multiple files · Up to 200 MB each
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How to Use Image to Text (OCR)
Why Use Our Image to Text (OCR) Tool?
OCR is essential for digitising printed documents, extracting data from screenshots, and making scanned files searchable. Tesseract, the world's leading open-source OCR engine, powers our tool — running entirely in your browser.
Frequently Asked Questions
English by default. Tesseract supports 100+ languages — multi-language OCR support is coming.
Accuracy depends on image quality. Clear, high-resolution images of printed text achieve 95%+ accuracy. Handwriting and low-res images are harder.
Tesseract can recognise neat print-style handwriting but struggles with cursive.
Up to 200 MB, but smaller images process faster. Most scanned pages are under 5 MB.