Recognize printed text in an image and copy or download plain text. Language packs run in the browser.
Image OCR reads printed text from a picture or scan and shows it as plain text you can copy or save as a .txt file. The engine is Tesseract compiled for the browser, so recognition runs on your device. QuickConvert does not receive the image or the transcript.
Use it when someone sent a screenshot of a paragraph, when you photographed a page instead of scanning it, or when you exported a PDF page to PNG with PDF to Images and still need editable words. It is not handwriting OCR and not a substitute for a lawyer retyping a contract, but it saves minutes on receipts, slides, and homework instructions.
Light and angle matter more than megapixels. Lay paper flat, shoot straight down, and avoid glare. If the frame includes a desk and a coffee cup, Image Crop first so the model sees mostly text.
For a PDF you cannot select text from, export pages as images, OCR each page, and paste into a document. Searchable-PDF workflows need more tooling than this page provides; treat the output here as raw material.
Language choice should match the majority script on the page. Mixed Arabic and English forms may need two passes on cropped regions. The site’s guides on converting PNG, JPG, and WebP help when you must change formats before OCR accepts a file.
Skewed photos, neon lighting, and fuzzy thermal receipts produce garbage. The tool tells you when it found nothing confident. Downscale huge panoramas internally, but extreme sizes may still stress memory.
OCR mistakes look like real words. Read dates, account numbers, and drug names twice. For publication or compliance, a human should still sign off.
No cloud recognition API is called. The WASM bundle runs locally after load. That matches the privacy guide on using online file tools without uploading scans that include names and addresses.
Crop, then OCR. Compress a noisy phone photo with Image Compress only if the noise is JPEG artifacts, not if compression would blur the letters.
When OCR is the first step toward a PDF packet, paste text into Word, export with Office to PDF, and merge with scans using PDF Merge. When you are splitting a long batch scan instead, read how to separate scanned documents so each OCR pass matches one logical document.
Keep the image until you have pasted and corrected the text. OCR is a transcription aid, not an archive format. Store the picture when the layout matters as much as the words.
No. Image OCR uses a WebAssembly build of Tesseract that runs inside your browser. The image stays on your device while the model reads it. QuickConvert does not store the picture or the recognized text on a server.
Scanned a whole stack of paperwork into one PDF? Map the page boundaries, drop the blank duplex backs, and extract each document into its own file with PDF Split.
When a page should become a picture, how scale and format change the result, and why selectable text does not survive.
How to tell a browser-side tool from an upload, and what QuickConvert still sends when your files stay on the device.
How to change image format without uploading the file, including transparency, quality, and batch downloads on phone and desktop.