Image to text (OCR)
Pull the text out of photos, screenshots and scanned PDFs. Text recognition runs on your device, so documents are never uploaded.
Runs in your browser. Your files are never uploaded or stored.
Something not working, or missing an option?
How to use Image to text (OCR)
- Pick the language of the text.
- Choose or drop an image or scanned PDF.
- Copy the text, or download it as a .txt file.
Questions
Does it read handwriting?
Printed text works best. Neat handwriting sometimes works; messy handwriting usually doesn’t.
Are my files uploaded?
No. The tool runs inside your browser, and the page is blocked from sending data anywhere. You can check by turning off your internet connection: it keeps working.
Open-source parts
- Tesseract.js Apache-2.0
- PDF.js Apache-2.0
- libheif-js LGPL-3.0
- UTIF.js MIT