Image to Text Converter
A free online image to text converter. Upload any photo or screenshot and extract text from your image in over 100 languages.
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ocrX - Scan Text from Images
ocrX is a free online image to text converter. Upload a photo, a screenshot, or a scanned page, pick the language, and it reads the text for you in a few seconds. No retyping, no sign up.
It handles over 100 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, and more. Once the text is out, copy it to your clipboard or download it as a TXT, PDF, or Word file.
How to extract text from images using ocrX?
Scanning and extracting text using ocrX is quite simple. Follow these steps to extract text from any image.
Upload the image
Drag and drop an image, or pick one from your phone or computer.
Choose the language
Pick the language of the text in your image so it reads accurately.
Extract the text
Hit Extract, then copy the text or save it as a TXT, PDF, or DOC file.
What you can pull text from
People reach for an image to text converter for all kinds of everyday jobs. A few of the common ones:
- A photo of a page, a sign, or a poster
- A screenshot of a chat or a slide
- A scanned document, contract, or form
- A receipt or an invoice
- A page from a book or a magazine
- Handwritten notes, if they are tidy
- A business card to save as a contact
- A whiteboard or a presentation slide
Text in over 100 languages
ocrX is not just for English. It reads Latin alphabets along with Arabic, Chinese in both Simplified and Traditional, Cyrillic, Devanagari for Hindi and related languages, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Tamil, Telugu, and Thai, among many more. Pick the language of your image before you extract and the text comes back much cleaner. When you save to PDF, ocrX uses the correct font for the script, so nothing turns into empty boxes.
What does OCR mean?
OCR stands for optical character recognition. It is the technology that looks at the shapes in a picture and works out which letters and numbers they are, so a flat image becomes text you can edit, copy, and search. ocrX runs OCR for you online, so there is no software to install to convert an image to text.