Image to Text converter
Copy the text out of a photo or screenshot, without uploading it.
or drop it here, or paste it
Nothing is uploaded.
About Image to Text
Photographed a page, a sign or a whiteboard, or saved a screenshot you need to quote? Text recognition (OCR) reads the letters in the picture and gives you text you can copy, search and edit.
The recognition runs on your own device with Tesseract, a well-known open-source OCR engine. The first time, your browser downloads it (about 7 MB with English); after that it works offline. Your images are never uploaded, which matters for letters, receipts and IDs.
Choose the language of the text before you start: English, Dutch, German, French or Spanish. Picking the right one helps with accents and letters such as é, ü and ß. Each extra language downloads once, the first time you use it.
Clear, straight, well-lit photos give the best results. Printed text reads much better than handwriting, and the reader keeps line breaks but not the layout, so tables and columns come out as plain lines of text. Check the result before relying on it, especially names and numbers.
Questions and answers
Very good for clear, printed text in a sharp, straight photo or screenshot. Handwriting, curved pages and busy backgrounds give more mistakes, so check the result.
English, Dutch, German, French and Spanish. Pick the language of your text before you start; the others download the first time you choose them.
Your browser first downloads the OCR engine and the language data. It stays in your browser, so the next time starts faster.
No. The text is read on your device; the images never leave it.