Free image to text converter

What is image to text conversion?

Image to text conversion uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology to read the text in an image and output it as editable characters you can copy, edit, or search. Think of it as teaching a computer to read a photo the same way a human would.

OCR has been around for decades — it's the technology behind Google Docs' "scan document" feature, the text search in Adobe Acrobat, and the ability to search inside scanned books. Today, thanks to WebAssembly, the same technology runs entirely inside your browser at no cost.

Convert image to text — step by step

1. Open imagetotextocr-phi.vercel.app.
2. Drag your image onto the page (or click the drop zone to browse).
3. Choose your language from the dropdown if it's not English.
4. Click Extract Text.
5. The text appears in the output box — click Copy or Download .txt.

What image formats are supported?

The converter accepts: PNG, JPG, JPEG, WEBP, BMP, GIF, TIFF, and most other common image formats. This covers screenshots from any device, phone camera photos, scanned documents, downloaded images, and graphics exported from any software.

Which languages can it convert?

Over 100 languages are supported through Tesseract.js, including:

• English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian
• Filipino (Tagalog), Indonesian, Vietnamese, Thai, Malay
• Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, Korean
• Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu
• Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Czech, Romanian

Select your language before extracting. The language model downloads once and is cached for future use.

How accurate is the conversion?

Accuracy depends on the quality of the image. Tesseract achieves 95–99% accuracy on clean, printed text in high-resolution images. For typical screenshots of digital documents, apps, or websites, accuracy is usually perfect. For photos of printed documents in good lighting, accuracy is very high. Handwriting and very small text have lower accuracy.

Image to text vs uploading to Google Drive

Google Drive can extract text from uploaded images too — but it requires a Google account, uploads your file to Google's servers, and processes it there. For most use cases that's fine, but for sensitive documents (IDs, financial records, private communications) it may not be acceptable.

This converter processes everything locally in your browser. Nothing is uploaded. It's also faster for casual use — no sign-in, no waiting for Drive to process.

Common use cases

• Students — digitize textbook pages, handouts, and lecture notes
• Office workers — extract data from scanned invoices and forms
• Researchers — convert printed articles or book pages to editable text
• Online sellers — copy product text from supplier screenshots
• Anyone — copy text from an image when you can't select it directly

Is it really free forever?

The core feature — single image OCR in any language — is and will remain completely free, with no account required. Development is supported by optional Ko-fi tips from users. Potential future premium features may include batch processing of many images simultaneously. Single image conversion: always free.