Turn any photo, screenshot or scanned page into text you can copy — English, Urdu or Arabic.
Free tool — your image is read in your browser and never uploaded. The language data (about 3 MB for English) downloads once from the internet. Works best on clear printed text; handwriting reads poorly.
You have a photo of a handwritten note, a screenshot of a message, a scanned page or a whiteboard full of writing, and you need the words as text you can edit, search or translate. Typing it all out by hand takes ages. This free image to text tool uses OCR — optical character recognition — to read the text in your photo and turn it into editable text in seconds. It works with English, Urdu and Arabic, which makes it handy for documents, receipts, school notes, old letters and signs in the UAE and Pakistan. Upload the image, let the tool read it, then copy the text or download it as a .txt file. Your image is processed in your browser where possible, and the tool is free with no sign-up and nothing to install.
OCR stands for optical character recognition. It is technology that looks at an image, finds the letters and words in it, and turns them into text you can copy, edit and search.
English, Urdu and Arabic. Pick the right language before you scan for the best result.
Printed, clear text is read very accurately. Handwriting, blurry photos, fancy fonts or tilted images can cause small errors, so always check the result before you use it.
Yes. It works well for receipts, invoices, business cards, notes and printed pages. For private documents, check the result and keep the original safe.