Extract Text
from Image
A free image to text converter that reads JPG, PNG and WebP in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
Drop an image here
or click to browse — JPG, PNG, WebP, BMP · nothing leaves your device
Free image to text converter that runs entirely in your browser
This free image to text converter uses optical character recognition (OCR) to turn a picture of text into text you can actually edit. Drop in a JPG, PNG, WebP or BMP and the tool reads the characters, rebuilds them line by line, and hands you plain text you can copy or download as a .txt file. Unlike most online image to text converters, it does not upload your file: the OCR model is downloaded to your browser and the image is processed on your own machine, so a screenshot of an invoice, a scanned contract or a photo of a whiteboard never leaves your device.
Add your image
Drag a JPG, PNG, WebP or BMP into the drop zone, or click to browse. The image is loaded straight into the page — it is never sent to a server.
Run the OCR
Press Extract text. The PP-OCRv6 Tiny model downloads once (about 6 MB), then detects every text region in the picture and recognizes the characters inside it.
Copy or download the text
Read the extracted text, copy it to your clipboard with one click, or download it as a .txt file. Character and line counts are shown so you can sanity-check the result.
Convert image to text in one click
Point the tool at any picture containing words and get editable text back. No cropping, no manual retyping, no character-by-character cleanup.
OCR image to text for screenshots
Screenshots are the most common OCR input: error messages, chat threads, dashboards, slides. Paste one in and pull the text straight out.
JPG and PNG to text
Photos are usually JPG, screenshots are usually PNG. Both work, along with WebP and BMP, so you rarely need to convert the image first.
Line-accurate output
Text is grouped into lines in reading order rather than dumped as one blob, so paragraphs, lists and tables stay far closer to the original layout.
Free and unlimited
A genuinely free image to text converter: no account, no credits, no watermark and no per-page cap. Run it as many times as you like.
Works offline after the first run
Once the model is cached by your browser, the OCR itself needs no network at all. The page keeps converting images to text on a plane or behind a firewall.
Screenshot to text
Lift an error message, a code snippet or a quoted paragraph out of a screenshot so you can search it, paste it into a ticket, or send it to someone who can help.
Scanned documents and receipts
Turn a scanned invoice, receipt or contract into searchable text you can paste into a spreadsheet or an expense report — without handing the document to a cloud service.
Photos of notes and signs
Convert a photo of a whiteboard, a lecture slide, a book page or a street sign into text you can edit, translate or store as notes.
JPG / JPEG to text
The default format for photos and phone cameras. Convert a JPG to text even when the picture is taken at an angle or under uneven lighting.
PNG to text
The format almost every screenshot uses. PNG is lossless, so screenshots typically give the cleanest and most accurate OCR results.
WebP to text
The format most modern websites serve images in. Save a WebP straight from a web page and read its text without converting it first.
BMP to text
An uncompressed legacy format still produced by scanners and older Windows tools. Supported so old scans do not need a conversion step.
A tiny model, on purpose
Recognition runs on PP-OCRv6 Tiny, the smallest model in Baidu's PaddleOCR v6 family: roughly a 1.9 MB text detector plus a 4.4 MB text recognizer. That size is what makes browser OCR realistic — a server-grade model would be hundreds of megabytes and could never be shipped to a visitor's browser. The models run through ONNX Runtime Web on WebAssembly, so the same neural network that would normally run on a server runs on your own CPU instead.
Multilingual recognition
The PP-OCRv6 Tiny recognizer is trained across a wide multilingual character set covering dozens of languages, including English and other Latin-script languages, plus Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Accuracy is highest on clear, high-contrast text; very stylized fonts, handwriting and heavily skewed photos remain hard for any OCR model, tiny or not.
No upload, no server
There is no upload endpoint and no API call carrying your image. The file is read by the page, decoded into a canvas, and passed to a model running in the same browser tab.
Nothing is stored
Because the image never reaches a server, there is nothing to retain, log or delete. Close the tab and every trace of the image and its text is gone.
Safe for confidential documents
Contracts, medical letters, payslips and ID scans can be read without them ever crossing a network — which most online OCR tools cannot honestly claim.
Only the model is downloaded
The one thing that crosses the network is the model itself, downloaded to your browser. Data flows toward you, never away from you.
Most online image to text converters upload your file
The usual free image to text converter posts your picture to a server, runs OCR there, and returns the text. That means your document sits on someone else's disk, subject to their retention policy. Here, the picture stays on your device.
No sign-up, no page limits
Cloud OCR services throttle free use with page caps, daily quotas or a sign-up wall, because every conversion costs them CPU time. Browser OCR spends your CPU, so there is nothing to meter.
Honest about accuracy
A tiny model trades a little accuracy for the ability to run locally at all. On clear screenshots and clean scans it is excellent; on blurry photos, handwriting or decorative fonts, expect to fix a few characters.
01How do I extract text from an image?+
Drop the image into the box at the top of this page, click Extract text, and wait a moment while the OCR model reads it. The recognized text appears in a panel you can copy to your clipboard or download as a .txt file. No account or install is needed.
02Is this image to text converter free?+
Yes, completely free and unlimited. There is no account, no credit system, no watermark and no cap on how many images you convert. The OCR runs on your own computer, so there is no server cost to pass on to you.
03Do you upload my image to a server?+
No. This is the main difference from most online image to text converters. Your image is read directly by the page and processed by a model running inside your browser tab. The file never travels over the network, so there is nothing for us to store or see.
04Which image formats can I convert to text?+
JPG/JPEG, PNG, WebP and BMP. That covers photos from a phone, screenshots, images saved from websites and older scanner output. Images up to 20 MB are accepted.
05Can I convert a screenshot to text?+
Yes, and screenshots are the best case for OCR. They are lossless, high-contrast and perfectly aligned, so recognition accuracy on a screenshot is typically far higher than on a photo taken with a camera.
06Which OCR model does this use?+
PP-OCRv6 Tiny, the smallest model in Baidu's PaddleOCR v6 family — roughly 1.9 MB for text detection and 4.4 MB for text recognition. It runs through ONNX Runtime Web on WebAssembly, entirely inside your browser.
07What languages does the OCR support?+
The PP-OCRv6 Tiny recognizer covers a broad multilingual character set spanning dozens of languages, including Latin-script languages such as English, French, German and Spanish, plus Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Clear, printed text gives the best results in any language.
08Why is the first extraction slower than the rest?+
The first run downloads the OCR model (about 6 MB total) and compiles the WebAssembly runtime. After that the model is cached by your browser, so every later image is read immediately, with no download at all.
09Can it read handwriting?+
Not reliably. PP-OCRv6 Tiny is trained on printed text, so neat block capitals may partly work but cursive handwriting generally will not. For handwriting, expect to correct a significant portion of the output.
10Does it work offline?+
After the first run, yes. Once your browser has cached the model there is no further network activity, so the page keeps converting images to text with no connection at all.
Extract text from an image now
Free, unlimited, and private by design. Your image is read in your browser and never uploaded.
Extract text from imageBecause images are processed entirely in your browser and are never transmitted or stored, using this tool does not create a data transfer to us. That makes it a good fit for documents covered by GDPR, HIPAA or internal confidentiality rules — but you remain responsible for handling the extracted text appropriately.