Image to text (OCR)

Get the text out of a photo of a document, a screenshot, a scanned letter or a whole scanned PDF instead of typing it again. Tesseract, a well-proven open-source OCR engine, reads it right in your browser in English, German, Spanish, French, Chinese, Hindi and 10 more languages. The result appears in an editor, so you can fix a word before you copy it.

How it works

  1. Drop an image or a scanned PDF, or paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V.
  2. Pick the language of the text.
  3. Check the text, then copy it or download it as .txt.

FAQ

How accurate is it?

Printed text in a sharp, straight photo or scan is usually recognised almost perfectly. Handwriting, very small text, strong shadows and fancy fonts give more mistakes.

Can it read a PDF?

Yes. Scanned PDFs are read page by page. If a PDF already contains real text, you can usually just select and copy it in your PDF viewer.

Is my file uploaded?

No. Text recognition runs on your device; only the language data is downloaded once.

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