Image to Text Converter — Free Online OCR
Image to Text is a free, in-browser OCR tool that turns a picture of text into editable text without uploading your file. Drop in a photo, screenshot or scan, pick the language, and the recognizer runs on your own device using WebAssembly. Copy the result to your clipboard or save it as a .txt file — your image and the text it produces stay on your device, and there is no account, quota or watermark.
How to Extract Text from an Image
Add Your Image
Drag & drop or click to select a JPG, PNG, WebP or GIF.
Pick the Language
Choose one or more languages and the content type.
Extract Text
Recognition runs locally — watch the live progress.
Copy or Download
Copy to clipboard or save the text as a .txt file.
Why Use TryDocsy for Image OCR?
No Upload Required
Recognition runs in your browser. Your image never leaves your device.
50+ Languages
English, Hindi, Arabic, Chinese and more — combine several at once.
Layout Presets
Dense paragraphs, sparse forms and screenshots, or a single line.
Automatic Enhancement
Grayscale, contrast and upscaling lift accuracy on small photos.
Copy or Download
One click to the clipboard, or save a plain .txt file.
Free & Unlimited
No account, no daily quota, no watermark on the output.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is my image uploaded to a server?
No. The picture never leaves your device. Recognition runs locally with the Tesseract WebAssembly engine, which is served from this site together with the language model you pick — the model comes from TryDocsy's own /api/tessdata proxy and is cached in your browser after the first run. Like most websites, TryDocsy does record anonymous usage counts (which tool was run), but never your image or the text it produces.
Which image formats are supported?
JPG/JPEG, PNG, WebP and GIF. If you have a HEIC photo from an iPhone, or a TIFF or BMP scan, convert it to JPG or PNG first — our Image Converter does that in the browser too.
Which languages can it read?
The picker offers 50+ languages, including English, Hindi, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Tamil. It is a curated shortlist rather than every Tesseract language pack, so a rarer script may not be listed. You can select more than one language at a time for mixed-script documents — pick only the ones actually present, because extra languages slow recognition and can reduce accuracy.
Can it read handwriting?
Not reliably. Tesseract is trained on printed type, so handwriting and cursive give poor results and should not be trusted. Neat block capitals sometimes work; joined-up writing almost never does. Clean, high-resolution images of printed text typically achieve 95%+ accuracy; blurry phone photos and small screenshots do noticeably worse.
How do I improve accuracy on a blurry or dark photo?
Use the highest-resolution version of the image you have, crop away everything that is not text, and make sure the text is upright rather than rotated or skewed. Keep the Enhance image toggle on — it converts to grayscale, boosts contrast and upscales small images. If the layout is a form, receipt or screenshot with scattered labels, switch Content type to Sparse; for a page of body text, choose Dense paragraph.
Is there a limit on file size or number of images?
One image at a time, up to 25 MB. There is no daily quota, no account and no watermark, because everything runs on your own hardware rather than ours.
What can I do with the extracted text?
Copy it straight to the clipboard or download it as a plain .txt file. The recognized text is produced and kept on your device and is never transmitted, so it is safe to use on ID documents, contracts, invoices and other private material.
