Image to Text Converter (OCR)
Extract editable text from screenshots, scanned pages and photos of documents. Text recognition runs privately in your browser using the open-source Tesseract engine, so your images are never uploaded.
Privacy note: the AI inference is designed to run in your browser. Large model files may be downloaded to your device on first use. Results are generated locally rather than sent to a paid AI API.
How to Convert an Image to Text
- Choose an image: a screenshot, a scanned page, or a phone photo of a document, sign or receipt (JPG, PNG, WebP and other common formats).
- Press Extract Text. The first time, the browser downloads the English language data (a few megabytes), which is then cached.
- Copy the recognised text and check it for mistakes before using it.
Tips for Accurate Results
- Use sharp, well-lit images. Avoid shadows, glare and blur. Hold the phone parallel to the page.
- Crop to the text. Remove backgrounds, photos and borders around the area you need.
- Higher resolution helps. Small text should be at least 20–30 pixels tall in the image.
- Dark text on a light background works best. Coloured or patterned backgrounds reduce accuracy.
- Printed text works far better than handwriting. Neat block capitals are sometimes recognised; cursive usually is not.
What You Can Use OCR For
- Copying text from screenshots of chats, slides and videos.
- Turning scanned letters, notices and book pages into editable text.
- Pulling figures from receipts and invoices into a spreadsheet.
- Making text in images searchable and accessible.
Language Support
This tool currently recognises English (Latin script). Text in other scripts, such as Urdu, Arabic or Hindi, will not be recognised correctly. Numbers and common symbols in English documents are supported.
Privacy
Recognition runs on your device with Tesseract.js, an open-source OCR engine. Your images are not uploaded to ConverterFox or any AI service, which makes the tool suitable for personal documents. Always double-check important details such as names, amounts and ID numbers, because OCR can misread similar characters like 0 and O or 1 and l.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this OCR tool free?
Yes. It is free with no sign-up, watermark or page limit.
Are my images uploaded?
No. Text recognition happens in your browser after the language data loads, so images stay on your device.
Can it read Urdu, Arabic or Hindi?
Not at the moment. The tool recognises English and other Latin-script text.
Can it convert a PDF to text?
This tool works with images. Use the PDF to JPG converter to turn each page into an image first, then extract the text here.