Extract text from images — free

Yes — you can extract text without creating an account, and there is no watermark on the output. The free tier includes a generous daily allowance that covers everyday OCR use; very heavy or bulk usage is where a paid plan helps. Your images are processed on our servers and deleted automatically after the text is extracted.

For sharp, well-lit text our OCR engines hit 95%+ accuracy. On blurry phone snaps the result drops, so retake the photo with steady hands and even lighting whenever possible. Cropping out borders, rotating the image upright, and switching between Engine 1 (fast) and Engine 2 (better on stylised fonts) usually recovers the rest of the lost characters.

The engine supports 60+ languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Russian and more. For bilingual receipts, contracts and signs, pass two language codes (for example eng+fra) so the model considers both scripts and chooses the right characters per word.

Yes. App screenshots, website captures, chat exports, exam questions, invoices, prescription labels, ID cards and product packaging all work as long as the text is readable to a human. The OCR copes well with anti-aliased UI fonts and PDF page exports, making it a quick alternative to retyping text from images for emails, notes or research.

Clean printed and typed text is the strongest use case. Neat block-letter handwriting works in Engine 2 mode, but cursive or messy handwriting is unreliable — for that, use our dedicated Handwriting OCR tool which is tuned specifically for handwritten notes, prescriptions and journals.

After the OCR finishes you can copy the full extracted text with one click, download it as a plain .txt file, or pipe it into our Image to Word converter for a fully editable .docx. The plain text view preserves line breaks so headings, lists and paragraphs survive the round-trip into your editor.

Uploads are processed in a temporary working directory and automatically deleted within minutes of the OCR finishing. We never use your images to train models, never share them with third parties, and never add watermarks. That makes the tool safe for confidential documents like invoices, prescriptions, contracts and personal correspondence.