What is it?
Image to Text (OCR) reads the printed words in a picture, such as a photo of a page, a screenshot, a bill or a notice, and turns them into text you can copy, edit and search. It runs in your browser with the open-source Tesseract engine; your image is not uploaded.
Who is it for?
Students copying notes from textbook photos, office staff retyping bills and forms, people saving text from screenshots, shopkeepers reading supplier lists, and anyone who doesn’t want to type out printed text by hand.
How to use it
- Tap Choose an image and pick a photo or screenshot.
- Choose the Language in the image: English, Hindi, English + Hindi, Punjabi, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, Korean, German, French or Spanish.
- Tap Read text. The words appear in the box; Copy them or Download .txt.
Worked example
A clear phone photo of a printed electricity bill, read with English selected, gives the account number, dates and amounts as text in a few seconds, with a confidence around 90%. Check numbers carefully before using them: OCR can mistake 0 for O, or 1 for l.
Errors and how to fix them
- “No text found. Try a sharper, straighter photo with more light”: the picture is blurry, dark, tilted or very small. Retake it flat, in daylight, filling the frame with the text.
- Text in the wrong letters: the language doesn’t match. Choose the right one, or English + Hindi for mixed text.
- Slow the first time: the language data downloads once; later reads are faster.
- Could not load …: the reading engine couldn’t download. Check your connection or pause your ad blocker.
- Handwriting comes out wrong: the engine is made for printed text.
More tips: Image to Text: “No text found” or wrong text.
Open the tool: Image to Text (OCR)
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