Image to Text Converter

From pictures to text, spreadsheets, documents and translation

This image to text converter uses optical character recognition (OCR) to turn visible words into editable text. Extract text from image files without retyping a screenshot, a photographed page or a scanned document. Choose a JPG, PNG, WebP or BMP, or paste a screenshot from your clipboard. Language models prepare automatically when the page opens; recognition starts after you add an image. The image and the resulting text stay in your browser. You can correct the text, then copy all of it into notes, messages or another app. Plain text is the quickest route when you only need the words; use the related tools when you need cells, document structure or another language.

Chat screenshots

Use screenshot to text for chat messages, presentation slides, article excerpts and error messages you cannot select. A PNG screenshot usually gives OCR cleaner letter edges than a compressed photo. Copy text from image results into an email or your notes, with line breaks you can edit. Cropped words cannot be recovered, and multi-column pages may need their reading order corrected. For copying directly on web images and paused videos, see the extension guide. How to use

Images you work with

Picture to text works with photographed handouts, receipts, labels and printed pages as well as digital images. Keep the page straight, include the whole text area and avoid glare and shadows. JPG, PNG, WebP and BMP all produce editable plain text here; changing the file extension does not improve a blurry original. Review names, punctuation and numbers against the image. Handwriting, formulas and complex layouts can need substantial correction.

Image to Excel

Invoices, price lists and report tables need more than a stream of words. Plain text can capture the labels and values, but it does not preserve spreadsheet cells or make numbers ready for calculations. Choose Image to Excel to reconstruct editable rows and columns and download XLSX. Review column alignment, merged headers and numeric values before calculating. Image to Excel

Image to Word

For lecture notes, contracts, articles and scanned pages, you may want headings, paragraphs and tables in a document. The plain text result is useful for a quick quote or note. Choose Image to Word when you need an editable DOCX with reconstructed document structure. Complex formatting still needs review; OCR cannot reproduce every font or page break. Image to Word

Translate Image

Menus, signs and screenshots in another language can start with local text extraction. To read them in a different language while keeping the picture, use Translate Image. That tool sends recognized text for translation, while the Excel and Word tools send text for AI structuring. The local image to text tool on this page sends neither your image nor its recognized text to a processing service. Each related tool explains its own processing and usage limits. Translate Image