Extract text from images — free

Yes. Start extracting and review the result before signing up, then create a free account to continue and download it. There is no watermark on the output. The Free plan includes a daily allowance for everyday OCR use; heavy or bulk work 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 24 hours — unless you explicitly share a result, which keeps it at a public link anyone who has it can open for up to 30 days. 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.

Yes. The OCR runs in any mobile browser, so you can snap or upload a photo on your phone and copy the extracted text back in seconds, with no app to install. Handy for grabbing text off a printed page, a sign, or a whiteboard while you are on the go.

Open the Language picker in Settings and choose the language your image's text is written in — this is separate from picking the OCR engine and directly affects character recognition. The list automatically filters to only the languages supported by your currently selected engine, so switching engines can reset an unsupported language back to English.

Formatted view preserves the original line breaks, spacing and layout position of text as it appeared in the image — useful for tables, forms and columns. Plain view strips that positioning into clean, reflowing paragraphs, which is better when you just want to paste the words into an email or document without leftover line breaks. The toggle only appears when the two versions actually differ.

Start with Default and the correct Language picker setting for a quick pass; if characters are still misread, switch to Engine 2, which handles handwriting and stylised fonts better, and click Re-run extraction. For clean printed text in a supported language, Engine 1 is usually faster with equivalent accuracy.

No — the result box is fully editable so you can fix a misread word or line before copying it, and the Copy button always copies exactly what's on screen. The Download button, however, saves the original .txt file generated by the OCR pass, not your on-screen edits. If you need the corrected version saved to disk, edit the text, copy it, then paste it into a new file with your own editor.

You can drop the HEIC or HEIF file straight in — the upload accepts PNG, JPG, WEBP, GIF, TIFF, BMP, HEIC and HEIF, so an unconverted iPhone photo works exactly like any other image format. The browser decodes it before OCR runs, so there's no separate conversion step needed first.

It re-runs automatically the moment you change the Engine dropdown or the Language picker, replacing the on-screen result with a fresh extraction under the new setting. Re-run extraction is there for retrying the same settings again — useful after a failed pass or a flaky connection — rather than being a required step after every dropdown change.

Yes. Upload a JPG, PNG, WebP or most other common image formats (up to 20 MB on Free, 50 MB with Premium or 120 MB with Pro) and the OCR converts the image to editable text. Whether it is PNG to text for a screenshot or JPG to text for a photographed page, pick the source language from the dropdown, run the extraction, then copy the result to your clipboard or download it as a .txt file.

Yes — this text extractor works entirely online in your browser, so there is no .exe installer, desktop OCR software or browser extension to download. Upload the image, the OCR runs on our secure servers, and your file is deleted automatically after the text is extracted. It works the same on Windows, Mac, Linux, and on your phone.

Yes, that is a common workflow for foreign signs, menus and documents. The OCR reads 30+ languages including Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and Hindi — set the source language to match the image, extract the text, then paste it into any translator. Extracting first gives a much cleaner translation than pointing a camera app at the page.

Yes — Pixoate supports batch and bulk processing. Switch to Batch mode, add up to 60 images on Premium or 200 on Pro, set your options once, and every image is processed with the same settings before you download a single ZIP. Bulk processing is a Premium feature; the output uses the same quality and settings as single mode.

Yes — with bulk processing you configure the settings a single time and they apply to every item in the batch — up to 60 images on Premium or 200 on Pro. There is no need to repeat the setup per item, and Temporary uploaded and generated files are processed securely and deleted automatically.