Free Image to Text Converter
Extract clean, editable text from product pictures, screenshots, receipts, and PDFs. Selective area box, full image mode, and noise filters included.
Drag & Drop Image Here, Browse Files, or Press Ctrl + V
Supports JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP, and single-page PDF (Max 15MB)
How to Extract Text from Complex Product Images
Photographs featuring retail packaging, kitchen tools, drainage strainers, fabrics, or complex backgrounds frequently fail in standard OCR tools. Circles, drainage holes, grid lines, and textured shadows get falsely identified by OCR neural networks as degree marks, bullets, commas, or random letters. Our converter resolves this with two purpose-built technologies:
Selective Box Isolation
Drag the crop handles directly around the label, price tag, or header to omit surrounding noisy patterns.
Adaptive Binarization
Our contrast filter turns background noise into clean white pixels while rendering text solid black for 99%+ accuracy.
In-Browser Privacy
No photos or extracted words are ever sent to remote cloud servers. Everything is processed directly in your RAM.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Why did OCR output strange symbols on my photo?
When an image contains dots, drainage holes, fabric mesh, or water droplets, the OCR engine mistake these repeating shapes for punctuation symbols. Switching to Specific Area (Crop) mode and drawing a box over the text prevents this.
How can I extract text from an image with both English and non-English text?
Select the primary language from the dropdown menu before running the extraction. You can crop each section and extract them individually for optimal results.
Can I paste a screenshot directly?
Yes. Take any screenshot using Snipping Tool or Win + Shift + S / Cmd + Shift + 4, then press Ctrl + V on this page to paste and begin extraction immediately.