Image to Text Generator

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is technology that analyzes the pixels of an image, finds letter shapes, and converts them into editable, selectable text characters. This tool takes your image, recognizes the text inside it, and gives you the plain-text result.

Yes. It is completely free with no usage limits, no sign-up, no watermarks, and no downloads required.

No. Your image is decoded and processed entirely inside your own browser using the open-source Tesseract.js OCR engine. The image never leaves your device and is never uploaded to our servers. The OCR engine code and language data files are downloaded once from the public jsDelivr CDN (the same infrastructure the official Tesseract.js project recommends) and then cached in your browser.

JPG/JPEG, PNG, WEBP, and BMP are fully supported. Animated GIFs are processed using their first frame, which is what browsers decode for display. Maximum file size is 10 MB.

The language chips in this tool cover 25 languages supported by the Tesseract.js LSTM models, including English, Spanish, French, German, Hindi, Tamil, Arabic, and Simplified Chinese. You can select up to 3 languages at once; the underlying engine supports more, but this list is what the on-page selector offers.

Accuracy depends on image quality — resolution, sharpness, contrast, lighting, font, and rotation all matter. For clean printed text, Tesseract LSTM accuracy is high and commonly used in production OCR applications. Handwriting, artistic fonts, tilted or low-quality photos, and decorative layouts often need several extraction attempts or a re-crop to get good results.

On the first run, your browser downloads the OCR engine (a few hundred KB of code) and the language data file for the languages you selected. These files are cached afterward, so subsequent extractions start instantly and can even work offline.

After a first successful run, the OCR engine and language data are stored in your browser cache, so extraction continues to work without internet until those cached files are cleared.

Yes. The extracted text appears in an editable text box so you can fix words manually before copying or downloading the final .txt file.

The OCR pass completed successfully on your image but the engine could not confidently find any characters (for example, the image had no text, the text was too small/blurry, or the wrong language was selected). Try a clearer image or a different language.

Yes. The workspace stacks vertically on phones. You can pick images from your camera roll or take a photo directly from the file picker on most devices.

No. We do not store, log, or transmit your images. The preview is displayed from an in-memory object URL that is destroyed as soon as you remove the image or close the page.

Because it is 100% browser-based: your image never gets uploaded, you don't need to sign up or install anything, and it supports 25 languages for free, unlimited use on desktop and mobile.