Image to text
Upload a photo or scan; get the text in it, in English and Indian languages: Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali and more.
About this tool
Text recognition runs Tesseract with its Indian language models on our own server. Your file is not kept, not logged and not sent anywhere else.
Choose the languages that are in the picture: fewer languages give better results.
Questions
Is there a limit?
Files up to 10 MB. The free tool allows a few pages a day; a free API key allows many more.
Developers: this page runs on the OCR API (POST /v1/ocr). Free, open source, no key for most of it.