How to Extract Text from Images and Photos for Free

The Power of OCR in Your Browser

Have you ever had a photo of a document or a screenshot that you needed to turn into editable text? Manually typing it out is a waste of time. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology can do it for you in seconds.

How to Convert Image to Text

Using our Image to Text (OCR) tool, you can simply upload your image, select the language (we support over 10 languages including Hindi, Chinese, and Arabic), and hit extract. Our tool uses Tesseract.js, an industry-standard engine that runs entirely on your computer.

Common Use Cases for OCR

• Digitizing Receipts: Quickly extract dates and totals from photos of receipts for expense tracking.
• Studying from Textbooks: Take a photo of a page and convert it to text for easier note-taking.
• Data Entry: Convert scanned PDF forms into editable text files.

Why Privacy Matters for OCR

Documents processed by OCR often contain sensitive information like names, addresses, or financial data. Using a cloud-based OCR service means sending that data to someone else's server. By using our local browser-based tool, your documents never leave your machine.