Image to Text Converter - Free OCR, 48 Languages

How to extract text from an image

Add your images. Drop them in, browse, paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V, or paste an image link. Up to 20 at once.
Pick the language. Choose the language of the text. For mixed text, add a second language.
Extract the text. Press Extract text. The first run downloads the language once; after that it is quick.
Copy or download. Fix anything in the text box, click words on the image to copy just those, then download TXT, Word or a searchable PDF.

Need the text in a document? Image to Word saves it as an editable DOCX, and Image to Excel rebuilds tables cell by cell.

What reads well - and what does not

Image	Result	Best preset
Screenshots	Excellent	Screenshot
Scans and printed pages	Excellent	Scan or book page
Phone photos of documents	Good when sharp and flat	Phone photo
Receipts and tickets	Good	Receipt
Signs, posters and memes	Fair	Auto, layout: Scattered text
Handwriting	Poor - the engine is trained on print	-

The engine reads printed and on-screen text. Neat block capitals sometimes work; joined-up handwriting usually does not.

Get a cleaner result

Pick the right language. It matters more than anything else - accents and special letters depend on it.
Mark just the text. Use Area to skip photos, logos and borders, or crop first with the Image Cropper.
Small or blurry text? Turn on Enlarge small text and Sharpen, or run the picture through the Image Upscaler first.
Dark mode screenshots are flipped to dark-on-light automatically.
iPhone photos (HEIC) open directly. If one does not, convert it with HEIC to JPG.

Which file to download

TXT - plain text for notes, code and chats.
Word (DOCX) - editable text with paragraphs. Image to Word can also put the original picture above it.
Searchable PDF - the picture stays as it is, with invisible text on top so you can search, select and copy. Great for archiving scans.
Excel or CSV - for tables. Image to Excel shows the grid so you can fix cells first.

Want to hear it instead? Send the text to Text to Speech, or change its case with the Text Transform Tool.

Private by design

Your images never leave your device. The OCR engine runs inside your browser, so ID cards, bank letters and medical notes stay private.

Only the language data is downloaded, once. Want to hide parts of a picture before you share it? Try Censor Photo.

Frequently Asked Questions

Drop the image into the box above (or paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V), choose the language and press Extract text. Copy the result or download it as TXT, Word or a searchable PDF.

Yes. There is no sign-up, no watermark and no page limit beyond 20 images per batch.

Clean screenshots and scans usually come out near perfect. Phone photos depend on light, focus and angle. Every result shows a confidence score, and unsure words are marked in amber on the image.

48 languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Arabic, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. You can add a second language for mixed text.

Only neat block letters, and not reliably. The engine is trained on printed and on-screen text.

No. Everything runs in your browser. Only the language files are downloaded the first time you use a language.

Yes - add up to 20. You get the text of each one, or all of it together as one TXT, one Word file, one searchable PDF or a ZIP.

Use OCR PDF. It copies real text straight out of digital PDFs and reads scanned pages with OCR, then can save a searchable copy.