Extract Text from Image

🔍 Image to Text (OCR): Turn Photos, Scans, and Notes into Editable Text—Privately

Our free Image to Text Converter uses on-device OCR to transform pictures of text into clean, editable content—no sign-up, no upload, and no watermark. Whether you’re digitizing handwritten notes ✍️, scanning receipts 🧾, copying text from slides 🖥️, or grabbing quotes from screenshots, this tool delivers fast, accurate results in your browser. Switch on Handwriting Mode for a boost on cursive or pen-written pages, and fine-tune with adaptive threshold, contrast, invert, and rotate to get the best possible output.

🛠️ How to Use This OCR (Step-by-Step)

1. Add your images: Click the upload area, drag & drop, or simply paste from the clipboard (Ctrl/⌘+V).
2. Select the language: Pick the best match for the text. For mixed content, try combined codes like eng+hin.
3. Improve clarity (optional): Use Grayscale for low-contrast scans; toggle Invert for white-on-dark notes; adjust Contrast for faint strokes. For uneven lighting, enable Adaptive threshold.
4. Handwriting? Tick Handwriting mode—it applies handwriting-friendly tuning automatically.
5. Extract: Click Extract Text and watch the progress bar. You’ll see average confidence and per-file stats when complete.
6. Use your text: Copy to clipboard or download as TXT, DOCX, or PDF.

✍️ Handwriting Mode: Tips for Better Results

• Lighting matters: Bright, even lighting reduces noise. Avoid heavy shadows and glare.
• Use Adaptive threshold: Start with Tile ≈ 24–40 and Offset ≈ 8–14 for most notebook scans.
• Contrast & Invert: Increase contrast for faint pen marks; invert if you captured white ink on a dark page.
• Keep it upright: Use Rotate to straighten the baseline—OCR works best when lines are level.
• One block or sparse lines? Handwriting often isn’t perfectly aligned. Our mode favors sparse text so lines don’t get merged incorrectly.

📦 Supported Formats & Performance

This tool supports JPG, PNG, WEBP, GIF, BMP, and TIFF. Very large photos are auto-resized (you can set a maximum width) so processing stays fast without visibly hurting quality. Batch mode lets you merge multiple pages into one clean output or switch the view to inspect each file separately.

🔒 Privacy First

Your images never leave your browser. There’s no server-side upload, no temporary storage, and no tracking inside the tool. Close the tab and everything is gone—simple.

💡 Popular Uses

• Students: Turn lecture photos into searchable study notes.
• Professionals: Capture text from printed forms and receipts for accounting or CRM updates.
• Creators & Bloggers: Extract quotes or captions from screenshots and scans.
• Developers & QA: Copy UI text from mockups or device screenshots without retyping.

🧽 Accuracy Checklist

• Make sure the image is sharp (no motion blur) and upright.
• Use Grayscale + Adaptive threshold for low-contrast handwriting.
• Pick the right language (or combine codes) to match diacritics and glyphs.
• For paragraphs, enable Join broken lines to remove random line breaks.
• If a page is still noisy, try recapturing with better lighting or a flatbed scan.

❓ FAQ

Looking for even higher handwriting accuracy (very cursive notes, stylized writing, or complex forms)? Consider our upcoming “Pro Mode” with cloud OCR. Until then, this private, on-device tool is a fast, reliable way to get editable text from everyday images and scans.