Image to Text - Extract Text from Photos and Screenshots
Upload a photo, screenshot, or scanned picture and get the text inside it back as plain, editable text.
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Maximum file size: 100 MB
No account, no watermark. Your files are not stored on our servers after processing.
Whether it's a whiteboard photo from a meeting, a screenshot of an error message, or a picture of a printed page, the words trapped inside an image file can't be copied, searched, or edited until someone retypes them. This tool reads the characters directly from the image and returns them as plain text you can paste into a document, email, or spreadsheet within seconds.
It handles common formats like JPG, PNG, and WEBP, and works on both clean digital screenshots and photos taken at an angle or under uneven lighting, though sharper images with clear contrast always produce cleaner results. There's no software to install: the image is uploaded, processed, and discarded after you copy or download the extracted text, so nothing lingers on a server afterward.
How to use Image to Text online
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Upload your image
Add a JPG, PNG, or WEBP file containing the text you want to extract - a photo, screenshot, or scanned picture, up to 100 MB.
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Select the text language
Choose the language of the text in the image so letters, accents, and punctuation are interpreted correctly.
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Extract the text
The tool scans the image, identifies characters and lines, and converts them into plain text in reading order.
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Copy or download the result
Copy the extracted text straight to your clipboard or download it as a text file for editing elsewhere.
When people use this tool
Meeting notes from whiteboard photos
Turn a phone photo of a whiteboard or flip chart into typed notes you can share, search, and edit after a meeting.
Copying text from screenshots
Pull code snippets, error messages, or quoted text out of a screenshot instead of retyping every character.
Digitizing printed materials
Extract text from a photographed book page, recipe card, or handout so it can be reused in a document.
Reading text in social media images
Grab captions or quotes embedded in shared images so the content can be edited, translated, or archived as text.
What you get
Works with photos and screenshots alike
Recognizes text whether it comes from a clean screen capture or an angled photo taken with a phone camera.
Multiple image formats supported
Accepts JPG, PNG, and WEBP files without requiring any conversion beforehand.
Preserves reading order
Lines and paragraphs are output in the order they appear on the image, not scrambled by columns or spacing.
Instant copy or download
Get the extracted text as a plain text file or copy it directly, ready to paste into any application.