Image to Text — Free OCR in Your Browser
Extract text from photos and screenshots. English, Portuguese and Spanish. Nothing is uploaded.
Drop an image here or click to choose
OCR runs on your device — image never uploaded · first use downloads the engine
A photo of a page, a screenshot of a message, a slide from a presentation: the words are there but you cannot select them. Optical character recognition reads the picture and gives you the text as text, to copy, edit or save as a .txt file.
It works best on what it was built for: printed or on-screen text that is sharp, straight and high-contrast. Screenshots are nearly perfect. A photo of a document works well if it is taken square-on in good light. English, Portuguese and Spanish are supported.
The recognition engine runs inside your browser, so a contract, a medical letter or a bank screenshot is never sent anywhere. The honest limits: handwriting is unreliable, especially joined-up writing; tables come out as lines of text without their grid; and a skewed or shadowed photo loses accuracy. If the page is crooked, the Document Scanner on this site straightens it first and the result improves a lot.
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Frequently asked questions
- What images work best?
- Sharp photos with straight, high-contrast text. Screenshots work great.
- Which languages are supported?
- English, Portuguese and Spanish at launch — more coming based on demand.
- Is my document uploaded?
- No. The OCR engine runs entirely inside your browser.
- Can it read a scanned PDF?
- Convert the PDF pages to images with the PDF to JPG tool, then run each image here. The text is recognised page by page.
- Why are some characters wrong?
- Usually blur, low contrast or a tilted page. Retake the photo closer, straight on and in even light, or straighten it with the Document Scanner first.
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🔒 Your files are processed on your device. This tool runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded.