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Image to Text (OCR)

Read the text in a photo or screenshot and turn it into text you can copy. Supports English and Korean, and recognition runs in your browser, so the image is never uploaded.

Drop an image with text here or pasteScreenshots, document photos, signs · JPG, PNG, HEIC
Choose file

Your image appears here.

Recognition settings

Language data (a few MB, Korean about 10MB) is downloaded on the first run. Your image is not sent anywhere.
Extracted text

How to use

1Add an imageUpload a clear photo or screenshot of the text.
2Pick a language and runLeave English selected (or choose Korean) and click Extract text. Turn on 2x upscaling for small text.
3Copy or saveCheck the result, fix any mistakes, then copy it or save it as a TXT file.

When it helps

Retyping text from a slide photo, a paper document, a receipt or a book page takes time. OCR (optical character recognition) reads the text in an image and turns it into text you can copy and edit.

This tool runs an open source recognition engine inside your browser. Unlike many free OCR sites that upload your image to a server, your picture never leaves your device, so it is a safer choice for personal or work documents.

Accuracy depends a lot on the photo. Shoot documents straight on, in good light, without blur and with the text large in the frame for much better results. Handwriting, decorative fonts and tilted photos can produce errors, so always review the result.

FAQ

How accurate is the recognition?

Printed text photographed clearly and straight on is usually read well. Handwriting, small text, blurry photos and text on busy backgrounds can contain mistakes, which you can fix right in the result box.

Is my image uploaded to a server?

No. Recognition happens inside your browser. The engine and language data are downloaded once and cached, so later runs are faster.

The first run is slow.

The first time, the language data has to be downloaded. On the same device it is much faster afterwards.

The result has too many line breaks.

Turn on Join lines to replace line breaks inside sentences with spaces, which makes the text easier to paste.

Can I use a PDF?

This tool takes image files only. Convert PDF pages to images with the PDF to JPG tool first, then add them here.