PDF & Image OCR
PDF Image to Text
Convert a PDF image to text free — no login. Turn scanned PDFs, photos and screenshots into editable, searchable text.
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Convert a PDF image to text free — no login. Turn scanned PDFs, photos and screenshots into editable, searchable text.
PDF Image to Text is a free online tool that converts the images inside a PDF — or any photo, scan or screenshot — into editable, searchable text. Upload your file and get clean text you can copy, edit or download instantly.
Many PDFs are really just pictures of pages: scanned documents, exported images, or photos saved as PDF. The text inside them can't be selected or searched. This tool uses optical character recognition (OCR) to read that visual text and turn it into real, machine-readable content. It works on scanned PDFs, image-based PDFs, photos and screenshots, runs in your browser with no login, and lets you download the result as plain text or as a searchable PDF with a selectable text layer.
If you have a PDF that is really just a picture of a page — a scan, an exported image, or a photo saved as PDF — you can't select or copy the text inside it. The same goes for screenshots and photos. Converting a PDF image to text fixes that, turning the visual text into real, editable characters you can use.
There are two kinds of PDF. A text PDF stores real characters, so you can highlight and copy them. An image PDF — anything scanned, photographed or saved from an image — is just a picture: the words are visible to your eyes but invisible to the computer. Optical character recognition (OCR) bridges the gap by reading the shapes of the letters and rebuilding the actual text.
To convert a PDF image to text here, upload your PDF, image or screenshot (no login needed), pick printed text or handwriting, choose the language, and tap Read text. Each page is rendered, cleaned up — adjusting contrast, sharpening edges and correcting orientation — and read by the recognition engine. You then copy the text or download it as a plain .txt file, or as a searchable PDF that looks identical to the original but has a real, selectable text layer behind it.
The same steps work for a single image, so it doubles as a screenshot-to-text tool with no login: just upload the screenshot instead of a PDF. Bangla works too — pick Bangla as the language before reading, as long as the Bangla language pack is available on the server. For the best accuracy, use a clear, high-resolution, well-lit image, and make sure the page is straight.
This is useful far beyond convenience: edit a contract you only have as a scan, search a stack of digitised invoices for a single figure, copy a quote from a screenshot, or prepare an image-based document for translation. And it stays private — your files are processed and then deleted automatically, usually within about 20 minutes, with nothing stored or shared, and no account to create.
Upload your PDF or image, choose the language, and tap “Read text.” The tool reads the page and gives you editable text to copy or download — free, with no login.
Upload the image, pick the language, and tap Read text. The tool uses OCR to recognise the words in the picture and returns them as editable text you can copy or download.
Yes. Any picture containing readable text — a photo, screenshot or scan — can be turned into text with OCR, as long as the writing is reasonably clear and well lit.
FreePDFtxt's PDF Image to Text tool converts images to text free, right in your browser — no app to install and no login required. It works on phones and computers alike.
Yes. This image-to-text tool is completely free with no signup and no watermark. It uses AI-based optical character recognition to read the text from your file.
Yes. Each page of a scanned or image-based PDF is read with OCR and converted into selectable, searchable text.
Yes. Upload a screenshot and it converts the image to text instantly — screenshot to text with no login or signup.
Yes. Choose the “Searchable PDF” output to get a PDF with a real, selectable text layer.
Yes, when the Bangla language pack is installed on the server — useful for screenshot to text in Bangla. Pick Bangla before reading for best results.
Yes. Files are processed temporarily and deleted automatically after about 20 minutes. Nothing is stored or shared.