Image to text (OCR)
Copy the text out of screenshots, photos of documents, receipts and scanned PDFs. Works in English and many other languages.
- Pictures never leave your device
- Many languages
- Free, no account
AI on your device
Tesseract, a well known text reader, runs in your browser, so documents stay private.
Scanned PDFs
Each page of a scanned PDF is read in turn, up to 50 pages.
Edit and copy
Correct any mistakes in place, then copy the text or download it as a .txt file.
Questions
How accurate is it?
Very good for clear, printed text: often better than 95%. Handwriting, very small text and curved or blurry photos are harder. Photograph pages straight on, in good light.
Which languages can it read?
English is built in. Urdu, Arabic, Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, French, German, Spanish, Polish, Chinese and more download once when you choose them.
Is anything uploaded?
No. Everything happens in your browser, on your device. Nothing you add or type is sent to this website or anywhere else.