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Image to Text Converter

Turn photos, screenshots and scanned pages into text you can copy and edit. Reads 20+ languages, handles up to 10 images at once, and your images never leave your device.

Updated 6 November 2026

Drop images or screenshots here JPG, PNG, WebP or BMP · up to 10 at once · or press Ctrl+V to paste
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🔒 Your images never leave your device. The text is read in your browser.

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How it works

1

Add your images: drop them in, choose them, or paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V.

2

Pick the language of the text. Mixed with English? Keep “Also read English” ticked.

3

Press Extract text, check the result, then copy it or download it as a .txt file.

Example

Example only. You have a photo of a printed recipe and want the ingredients in your notes app. Add the photo, keep English selected and press Extract text. A few seconds later the text appears in the box with a confidence score. Fix any odd words, press Copy text and paste it wherever you need it.

Helpful guides

Where the technology comes from

Frequently asked questions

Yes. It is completely free, with no sign-up, no watermark and no daily limit. You can read up to 10 images at a time and run it as often as you like.

No. The text reader (the open-source Tesseract engine) downloads to your browser once, then reads your images on your own device. Your images and the text never reach OrbitCorner or anyone else, which matters for IDs, bills and private messages.

23 languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. If your image mixes another language with English, keep Also read English ticked.

It is built for printed and typed text, such as documents, screenshots, signs and books. Very neat handwriting sometimes works, but results vary a lot. For handwriting, the built-in Google Lens or Apple Live Text on your phone often does better.

Clear printed text usually comes out with 95% confidence or more. Accuracy drops with blurry, dark, tilted or very small text. Keep Improve the image first on, crop to just the text, and pick the right language for the best result.

Not directly. Take a screenshot of each PDF page, or export the pages as images, then add them here. If the PDF already contains real text, you can usually select and copy it in your PDF viewer without OCR.

Text recognition is not perfect. Always check important numbers, names, amounts and dates against the original image before you use them.