Choose the language of the document in the I Love To Edit image to text tool, add your picture and the recognized text appears beside it. Copy it to the clipboard or save it as a .txt file. Leave image enhancement on for photos taken with a phone.
A photographed page, a screenshot of a message or a scanned letter is only a picture until something reads it. Optical character recognition does that reading and hands back text you can paste into a document, search or translate.
The recognition engine runs in your browser, so letters, IDs and other private papers are not sent to a server. Nineteen languages are available, among them English, Urdu, Arabic, Hindi, Bengali, Persian and Chinese, and a combined English and Urdu mode for mixed documents.
How to use the Image to Text (OCR) tool
- Choose the language: Pick the language printed in the picture; this matters more than any other setting.
- Leave enhance on: It evens out lighting and contrast before reading.
- Add pictures: Drop, choose or paste one or several.
- Take the text: Copy it or download a .txt file.
Image to Text (OCR) features
- 19 languages: Latin, Arabic-script, Indic and East Asian languages.
- English with Urdu: A mode for pages that mix both.
- Image enhancement: Cleans up phone photos before recognition.
- Confidence figure: Shows how sure the engine is about what it read.
- Several pictures: Process a stack of pages in one go.
Tips for the best result
- Flat, sharp, evenly lit pages read best. Shadows and curved pages cause most mistakes.
- Crop away everything except the text first.
- Printed text works well. Handwriting is unreliable.
- A low confidence figure is a signal to proofread carefully.
Quick facts
| Price | Free |
|---|---|
| Works with | JPG, PNG, WebP |
| Where it runs | In your browser, on your device |
| Account | Not needed |