Read the words out of a picture and copy them as text
Processed in your browser. Nothing is uploaded. Updated on 24 Oct 2026.Reading text from a picture uses OCR that runs inside your browser, in English, Hindi, or both together. The engine downloads about 4 MB the first time and then works offline. Up to 10 pictures of 20 MB each, and the photograph never leaves your device.
Press Select pictures, or drop an image onto the page.
Pick the Language the text is in: English, Hindi, or English and Hindi.
Wait while the words are read on your device, then check the result in the Text pane.
Press Copy text, or Download .txt.
Image to Text reads the words inside a picture and gives them back as text you can select, copy, correct and search. It takes JPG, PNG, WebP, BMP, GIF and TIFF, up to ten pictures at a time, and it works on a phone as well as on a computer.
The reading happens on your own device. Tesseract, the recognition engine, is downloaded once as WebAssembly and then runs inside your browser, so the picture is never sent anywhere and never reaches a server of ours. That matters more here than on most tools: the things people photograph in order to copy the text tend to be receipts, letters, identity documents and bank statements. The first use of the tool downloads roughly four megabytes of engine and language data, which the browser then keeps; afterwards it starts immediately, and it keeps working with no connection at all.
English and Hindi are both supported, separately or together. Devanagari needs its own recognition data, which most free converters never load, so a Hindi page usually comes back as nothing; here it is shipped with the tool, and the combined setting reads a document that mixes the two without making you choose.
Recognition is never perfect, so the result is shown with a confidence reading and a plain sentence about how far to trust it. Names, numbers and anything handwritten are where mistakes cluster, and those are worth checking against the picture. The quality of the photograph decides almost everything: a page that fills the frame, is the right way up, and is lit evenly without glare or shadow will read well, while the same page photographed at an angle in poor light may not read at all.
The text can be copied in one press or downloaded as a .txt file named after the picture it came from. There is no account, no watermark and no limit on how many times you use it.
Add the picture, or drop it onto the page, and the words are read straight away on your own device. Choose English, Hindi or both first if the picture is not in English. When the text appears, press Copy text, or download it as a .txt file named after the picture.
No. The recognition engine is downloaded to your browser once and runs there, so the picture never leaves your device and no copy of it is kept by anyone. That is why the tool keeps working when you go offline, and why a photograph of a receipt or a document stays private.
Photo se text kaise nikale, in three steps: add the photograph, pick the language, and copy the text that appears. The whole thing happens inside your browser, so nothing is uploaded. For a Hindi page choose Hindi, or choose English and Hindi when the document mixes both.
Recognition depends almost entirely on the picture. A page that fills the frame, sits straight and is lit evenly reads well; one photographed at an angle, in shadow or with glare may read poorly or not at all. Handwriting, unusual fonts and very small text are the hardest cases, so retaking the photograph usually helps more than anything else.
Yes. Hindi recognition data is shipped with the tool, which most free converters never load, and there is a combined setting for documents that mix Hindi with English. Choose Hindi before adding the picture, or open the Hindi Image to Text page, where it is already selected for you.
JPG, PNG, WebP, BMP, GIF and TIFF are accepted, up to twenty megabytes each and ten pictures at once. Larger pictures are not better: what matters is that the writing is sharp and reasonably large in the frame, not that the file itself is big.
Still stuck? Ask about Image to Text and anybody who knows can answer. No account needed.
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Also works as: JPG to Text · Photo to Text · Scanned Document to Text.
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