Free image to text (OCR) online.

Drop the image (JPG, PNG, WebP, or HEIC) onto the tool, pick the document language, and click Extract text. The OCR engine recognizes the text in your browser and shows it in an editable box you can copy or download as a .txt file. No upload, no signup. Works on screenshots, scanned documents, receipts, book pages, and photos of signs.

Yes. No accounts, no daily caps, no per-file size limit, no watermark. The whole OCR pipeline runs in your browser using Tesseract.js, so there is nothing to ration.

No. This is the key difference from most online OCR sites. The recognition runs entirely on your device using a WebAssembly engine. Nothing uploads, nothing is logged. This matters when the image is a contract, an ID, a receipt, a medical document, or anything you do not want sent to a server.

Over 20, including English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish, Polish, Romanian, Czech, Hungarian, Swedish, Greek, Russian, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, and Hindi. Pick the document language before extracting; the matching recognition data downloads automatically on first use.

Very good on clear, high-contrast, upright text (printed documents, screenshots, slides). Accuracy drops on skewed, blurry, handwritten, or low-resolution sources. For best results, use a sharp image with good lighting and straight text. The tool shows a confidence score so you can judge each result.

Not reliably. Tesseract is trained on printed text, so neat printed handwriting may partially work but cursive and messy handwriting usually do not. For printed documents, screenshots, and typed text it works well.

Yes, and it is one of the most common uses. Drop a screenshot of a webpage, error message, chat, slide, or app and the tool pulls the text out so you can copy it. No need to retype.

Yes. iPhone HEIC images are decoded in the browser first, then run through OCR like any other image. Useful for photographing a document or sign and pulling the text out.

Yes. The recognized text appears in an editable box. Fix any OCR mistakes, then copy to clipboard or download as a .txt file. The character, word, and confidence counts update as you edit.

Same idea (image to text), but private and free with no upload. Google Lens sends the image to Google; most online OCR sites upload to their servers. Here the recognition happens on your device, so the image never leaves it. No signup, no daily limit, no watermark.