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Photo to Text

Snap a picture of a page, a sign or a screenshot and pull the text out of it. Choose the language, click Extract, and copy the result.

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This page opens the Image to Text (OCR) with the right mode pre-selected. Point it at a photo, screenshot or scanned PDF and get editable text back. Powered by Tesseract OCR running entirely in your browser, with 17 languages including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and more. Multi-page PDFs are recognized page by page with a progress bar; copy the result or download it as a .txt file.

Frequently asked questions

Which languages can it read?

English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Urdu, Arabic, Spanish, French, German and Chinese — plus an English+Hindi combined mode for mixed documents.

Are my files uploaded to a server?

No — like every iConvertDoc tool, this runs entirely in your browser. Files are processed on your device and never transmitted.

Is it free?

Yes. No sign-up, no limits, no watermark.

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