Image to Text (OCR)

OCR, optical character recognition, finds letters in a picture and turns them into text you can copy, edit and search. It's how you get the words out of a screenshot, a scanned certificate, a photo of a notice board or a page of a book without typing them again.

This tool uses Tesseract, a well-established open-source OCR engine, compiled to run inside your browser. It supports English, ten Indian languages and several European ones. The picture itself is never uploaded; the engine and the language model are fetched from a public CDN on first use and then cached by your browser.

OCR is most accurate on sharp, straight, well-lit printed text with letters at least 20 pixels tall. Crop away everything that isn't text, rotate the image upright, and avoid shadows or glare across the page. Screenshots usually come out almost perfect; handwriting and decorative fonts usually don't.

The confidence figure is the engine's own average certainty across words. Below about 70%, check the text carefully against the image.