🔡 Image to Text Tools

Pull editable text out of images and scans.

This is an exhaustive list of tools that extract text from images. They turn a picture of a document into something you can actually edit. Some use OCR, while many use AI vision models to to read the words inside a photo, screenshot or scanned page and hand them back as editable, copyable text. Some support multiple languages.

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10 tools

Freemium

ImgOCR

Pulls the text out of a photo, scan or handwritten note, with no login to start.

BeginnerWeb

Freemium

Image to Text

Free OCR that pulls the text out of an image, built on the open-source Tesseract engine, with no signup.

BeginnerWeb

Paid

Pen2txt

Handwriting recognition that turns handwritten pages into editable text, priced at one credit per image uploaded.

BeginnerWeb

Freemium

OnlineOCR

Pulls the text out of a scan or photo and hands it back as a Word or Excel file laid out like the original, not a wall of plain text.

BeginnerWeb

Freemium

i2OCR

Pulls text out of an image or a scanned PDF in 128 languages and scripts, free and with no account.

BeginnerWeb

Free

img2txt

A free browser OCR tool that pulls printed text out of images and PDFs in over 120 languages, with no account or watermark.

BeginnerWeb

Free

NewOCR

NewOCR is a free online OCR service that pulls editable text out of images, scans and PDFs in 122 languages. It needs no account and does not cap uploads.

BeginnerWeb

Freemium

OCR.best

Free web OCR that pulls editable text out of images, PDFs and scans in 20+ languages, with no signup.

BeginnerWebiOSAndroid

Free

ToText

ToText pulls the text out of an image or PDF and gives it back as an editable file, free and with no sign-up.

BeginnerWeb

Free

Fotor Image to Text

Free AI OCR that reads text from photos, screenshots, scans and handwriting, with one-click translation.

BeginnerWebWindowsMaciOS

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