Image to Text Extractor

Image to Text Extractor runs OCR over a screenshot, scan or photo and gives you the words back as plain text, with a confidence figure attached to the read.

Tesseract, together with the trained character data for whichever language you select, is fetched into the browser the first time you run it and then matches shapes in the picture against the letter forms it knows. The average confidence it reports is the part worth watching: anything under 70 per cent is flagged for checking by eye, which is what separates a clean read from one that merely looks like text. Accuracy is a property of the picture rather than the tool — sharp, upright, high-contrast print reads well, while handwriting and steep angles do not, and picking the wrong language yields nonsense instead of an error. The file is accepted on its extension, so JPG, PNG, WebP, BMP and GIF go through and a PDF is turned away towards the OCR PDF tool, which rasterises pages before reading them.

Tesseract executes in the page, so the picture is never uploaded — which matters for the images people actually run OCR over: a payslip, a bank statement, an ID card, a medical form. Only the engine and its language data travel over the network; the image itself goes nowhere.

Copying an error message out of a screenshot, getting the figures off a photographed invoice, pulling a paragraph from a scanned page instead of retyping it, and recovering the text from a slide someone sent as a picture.

Also known as: receipt scanner ocr · ai text from photo · invoice ocr extractor · image to text converter