Image to Text
Extract text from photos, pictures, and screenshots with private in-browser OCR. One page covers image to text, photo to text, picture to text, and extract text from image — copy text, download TXT, or download Word.
Drop a file here
Upload or paste an image — photo to text, picture to text, extract text from image. Private Tesseract.js OCR.
How to use this tool
Upload or paste an image
Drop JPG, PNG, WEBP, BMP, or TIFF — or paste from the clipboard where your browser allows it.
Extract text
Tesseract.js recognizes text locally in this tab.
Copy or download
Copy text, download TXT, or download Word when you need a document.
One page for the whole semantic cluster
Searchers look for photo to text, picture to text, convert image to text, and image text extractor. Format Convertly concentrates that intent on Image to Text instead of thin synonym pages — clearer UX and stronger topical focus.
OCR without uploading images
Screenshots, whiteboards, and document photos often contain sensitive text. Recognition runs with Tesseract.js in a WebAssembly worker so files never need a backend.
Outputs that match real workflows
After recognition you can copy text, download a .txt file, or download a simple Word (.docx) document. Need tables? Use Image to Excel. Need JPG-only SEO URLs? Use the JPG → Text converter.
Tips for better accuracy
Use sharp, high-contrast images. Crop tightly around the text. English (eng) is enabled in this release; a language dropdown can expand later without changing the privacy model.
Frequently Asked Questions
More on quality loss: conversion quality guides · compression guides
Is my image uploaded?
No. OCR runs in your browser with Tesseract.js (WebAssembly). Format Convertly does not receive your file.
Does this replace photo to text / picture to text pages?
Yes by design. Those queries share the Image to Text parent topic — this page is built to satisfy them without thin duplicate URLs.
Can I download Word from here?
Yes. After OCR you can download DOCX as well as TXT, or open Image to Word for a Word-first landing.
Can I OCR a PDF?
Use PDF OCR or OCR PDF to Word for PDFs. This tool is for raster images (JPG, PNG, WEBP, BMP, TIFF).
Does compressing or converting images reduce quality?
Lossy compression can. Use higher quality settings when fidelity matters, and keep an original master. Lossless workflows preserve pixels.
Can you recover quality after compressing?
Not from the compressed file alone. Keep the original upload/export and recompress from that master if you need a better result.
What is generational loss?
Quality damage from repeatedly re-encoding lossy images. Avoid save→compress→save loops; work from a master.
Ready to convert more formats?
Browse converters or jump back to the tool above.