Image to Text uses the Tesseract OCR engine, compiled to WebAssembly, to recognize printed text in screenshots, scans, and photos — entirely inside your browser tab. Pick the language of the text, drop in an image, and get editable, copyable text without uploading the file to any server.
Pick the language the text is written in — it strongly affects accuracy.
Drop an image here, click to browse, or paste from clipboard
PNG, JPG, WebP, BMP supported — best results with clear printed text
Yes. The tool is free and runs directly in your browser with no account required.
No. Recognition is done by the Tesseract OCR engine compiled to WebAssembly, running inside your browser tab. Your image never leaves your device — only the engine and language data are downloaded, once, and then cached.
On first use the browser downloads the OCR engine and the language data for the language you picked (a few megabytes). Subsequent runs reuse the cached files and start much faster.
English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese. Choose the language that matches the text in the image — running English OCR on Portuguese text will produce many errors.
Not reliably. Tesseract is designed for printed text. Neat block handwriting occasionally works, but cursive or informal handwriting usually produces garbled output.
Common causes: the wrong language selected, a blurry or low-resolution image, skewed or rotated text, low contrast, or decorative fonts. Try a tighter crop around the text, a higher-resolution capture, and double-check the language setting.
Yes — the extracted text appears in an editable text area, so you can fix recognition mistakes before using 'Copy text' or 'Download .txt'.
Often, yes — if the photo is straight-on, in focus, and evenly lit. Strong angles, shadows, and glare significantly reduce accuracy.
