Image to Text (OCR)

Name: GetFreeToolsAI
Price range: Free

Pull editable text out of any image — screenshots, scans or photos — right in your browser, completely private.

FreeNo SignupBrowser-Based

Your file never leaves your browser. All processing happens on your device. Nothing is uploaded to any server.

How it works

Upload your image

We OCR it in your browser

Copy or download the text

What image-to-text does

Reads the text inside a screenshot or photo and turns it into editable, copyable text you can download.

About this tool

Our free image to text tool uses optical character recognition to pull editable text out of any picture — a screenshot, a photographed page, a receipt, or a scanned document. It saves you from retyping by hand whenever you need to quote a passage, copy a code or address from a photo, or digitise printed notes. Recognition supports English, Hindi, Arabic, French, and Spanish, and the extracted text appears in an editable box so you can fix any mistakes before copying it or downloading as .txt or .docx. Unlike paid OCR services that upload your files and limit free pages, GetFreeToolsAI is unlimited and adds no watermark. Everything runs in your browser with Tesseract.js, so your image is never sent to any server and stays private on your device. It works in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge with no installation and no signup, ever.

Why use this tool

OCR in your browser

Pull editable text out of a screenshot, photo or scan without retyping it by hand.

Multiple languages

Recognises English, Hindi, Arabic, French and Spanish for accurate extraction.

Edit before you save

The text appears in an editable box so you can fix any mistakes, then copy or download as TXT or DOCX.

Common use cases

Copy text from a screenshot or photo
Digitise printed notes or a page from a book
Pull a code, address or quote out of an image
Extract text from a receipt or document scan

From a photo of text to an editable document

This tool does more than dump the words out of a picture. It runs the same layout-aware OCR engine as our PDF OCR studio: it reads the position of every word and line and rebuilds the structure — headings, paragraphs, lists and aligned tables — then lets you fix the highlighted low-confidence words and export.

What you can export

Editable text — copy it, or download as .txt, Markdown or HTML.
Word (.doc) — keeps headings and tables, ready to edit.
Searchable PDF — your image with an invisible, selectable text layer on top, so the picture looks identical but you can search and copy from it.

Best results

Use a sharp, well-lit photo — high contrast between text and background helps most.
Keep the page flat and straight; skew confuses line detection.
Pick the right language (English, Hindi, Bengali, Odia, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi and more).

Private by design

Recognition and reconstruction happen entirely in your browser — your image is never uploaded. Working with a multi-page PDF instead? Use PDF OCR. Need an editable Word document from a PDF? See PDF to Word.

Frequently asked questions

Clear, high-contrast images of printed text work best — screenshots, scanned documents, photos of signs or pages. Handwriting and very stylised fonts are less reliable.

English, Hindi, Arabic, French and Spanish. Pick the language that matches your image for the most accurate results.

Yes. The extracted text appears in an editable box, so you can fix any recognition mistakes before copying it or downloading as .txt or .docx.

OCR accuracy depends on image quality. Blurry, low-resolution, skewed or low-contrast images reduce accuracy. A sharper image and the correct language usually fix it.

Completely. Recognition runs in your browser with Tesseract.js — the image is never uploaded to any server.