Image to Text Converter (OCR)

How to extract text from an image

1. Choose an image, drop it on the box, or paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V (Cmd+V on Mac).
2. Pick the language of the text: English, Bangla, or both for mixed documents.
3. Recognition starts automatically. The first time, the language data (about 2 MB for English, 0.5 MB for Bangla) is downloaded and then cached by your browser.
4. Edit the result if needed, then copy it or download it as a text file.

What is OCR?

Optical character recognition (OCR) turns pictures of text — scans, photos, screenshots — into real, editable text. This tool uses Tesseract, a widely used open-source OCR engine originally developed by HP and later maintained by Google, compiled to run directly in your browser.

Getting the best accuracy

• Sharp, well-lit images work best. Avoid shadows, glare and blur.
• Straight and flat: photograph pages from directly above. Crop away the background with the Image Cropper.
• Enough resolution: text should be at least 20–30 pixels tall in the image. Screenshots of normal-size text are usually fine.
• Printed text is recognised far better than handwriting, which OCR handles poorly.
• Choose the right language. For pages mixing Bangla and English, choose “English + Bangla”.

Bangla OCR

Bangla text is recognised with Tesseract’s trained Bengali model. It handles clear printed text — books, newspapers, official documents and screenshots — reasonably well. Complex conjuncts (যুক্তাক্ষর), decorative fonts and low-quality scans reduce accuracy, so always proofread the result.

Common uses

• Copy text from a screenshot or a photo of a notice.
• Digitise printed documents, receipts and business cards.
• Extract quotes from book pages for study notes.
• Make scanned PDFs searchable: convert pages with PDF to JPG, then run OCR here.

Frequently asked questions