Annotate the cleaned page
Download or pass the corrected page to the annotation tool when you need arrows, labels, highlights, or callouts.
Next stepLocal OCR and document cleanup
Image to Text with cleanup before OCR
Use Image to Text for a clean screenshot, or straighten and brighten a photographed page before you extract text from the image. Edit the OCR result beside the source instead of trusting an unchecked transcript.
Image editing and OCR run locally in this browser tab. OCR language files load only when you start recognition.
Image to Text and document photo cleaner
Upload, drop, or paste one image. Switch between text extraction and image-only cleanup without losing corner, rotation, tone, or region edits.
Preview
Add a screenshot or document photo
A clear screenshot can go straight to OCR. For a photographed page, adjust the corners and lighting first.
Editable OCR result
Detected lines — select one to locate it
Run recognition to list located text lines.
Local processing and honest limits
Images and recognized text stay in this tab: never uploaded or persistently cached. Only public engine and language files are downloaded when recognition starts and cached for reuse. Once loaded, OCR works offline in this page. Verify names and numbers against the image.
Version 1 is for printed English, Simplified Chinese, and mixed text. It does not promise handwriting, formula recognition, table reconstruction, curved-page flattening, or generative recovery of unreadable details.
Image to Text in a practical document workflow
Use the same cleaned image for editable text, annotation, privacy review, or printing.
Redact before OCR
Cover private fields first. When you continue here, only the exported redacted pixels are recognized; earlier sensitive text is not carried over.
PrivacyPrint a cleaned document image
If you only need a clearer page, skip OCR, download the cleaned image, or continue to the actual-size printing tool.
Image outputImage to Text starts with the right source
A screenshot and a handheld document photo need different preparation, even though both can end as editable text.
Correct perspective without guessing the page shape
Place four points on the real paper corners, inspect each point with the magnifier, and use Auto ratio when the paper size is unknown. Choose A4 or US Letter only when that is truly the source page.
Use Image to Text on a whole page or one region
Run OCR on the cleaned image, or draw a box around one paragraph, receipt total, error message, or caption. The result stays editable and each detected line can point back to its image area.
How to use Image to Text accurately
Prepare only as much as the source needs, then check the OCR against the pixels.
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Start with the original color
Upload or paste the source. Leave a clean screenshot in Original color; for a photographed page, rotate it and align the four corners first.
- Keep all four paper corners visible
- Use a tight region for one field or paragraph
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Clean the document without erasing detail
Compare Original with Cleaned, then add only enough background lightening and text darkening to separate the page from its lighting. Black & white is optional, not the default.
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Review every OCR result
Choose English, Simplified Chinese, or mixed recognition; run whole-image or region OCR; then correct names, amounts, punctuation, and line breaks before copying or downloading TXT.
Image to Text FAQ
Search-informed answers about screenshot OCR, document photo cleanup, perspective correction, privacy, and accuracy.
How do I use Image to Text online?
Upload, drop, or paste a PNG, JPG, or WebP. Keep a clear screenshot in Original color, or correct and clean a photographed page. Choose the language and whole-image or selected-region OCR, run recognition, then proofread the editable result.
Can Image to Text extract text from a screenshot?
Yes. Screenshot to text works best when the letters are sharp, large enough, and clearly separated from the background. A clean screenshot should not be changed to black and white by default.
Can I extract text from only part of an image?
Yes. Choose Selected region, drag a box on the cleaned preview, and run Image to Text on that crop. Region OCR is useful for one paragraph, receipt total, label, caption, or error message.
Does Image to Text support Chinese and English together?
The first version supports printed English, Simplified Chinese, and English plus Simplified Chinese. Select the narrowest correct language option because loading and recognition can take longer for mixed text.
Why does Image to Text need to load a language file?
Browser OCR needs a recognition model for the selected language. The page waits to load Tesseract resources until you start recognition, so people who only clean a document image do not pay that loading cost.
How can I improve extract text from image accuracy?
Use a sharper source, keep text reasonably large, correct rotation and perspective, crop away unrelated content, and improve contrast gently. Compare with the original because aggressive black-and-white cleanup can remove faint punctuation or numbers.
Can perspective correction fix a document photo taken at an angle?
It can map four real paper corners to a front-facing rectangle. Auto ratio estimates the rectangle from the photographed sides; A4 and US Letter should be chosen only when the physical source uses that page shape.
Can I clean a scanned document and still view the original?
Yes. During cleanup and image perspective correction, switch between Original & corners and Cleaned image to judge whether background lightening, grayscale, or black-and-white processing removed useful detail.
Does Image to Text upload my document?
No. Image editing and OCR run locally in the current browser tab. The site can still use normal analytics and advertising, but the selected image is not sent to an OCR server by this tool.
Does Image to Text recognize handwriting, formulas, or tables?
This first version does not promise handwriting recognition, complex formula conversion, table reconstruction, or original page layout. It is designed for printed lines that you can review and correct.
Can document cleanup recover a blurred or unreadable number?
No. Brightness, contrast, grayscale, and perspective correction can make existing pixels easier to inspect, but they cannot recover detail that the source never captured. The tool does not invent missing characters.
What can I download after Image to Text?
Download the cleaned page as PNG, copy the corrected OCR result, or download it as TXT. You can also pass the cleaned image to annotation or actual-size printing without forcing an OCR step.
Start Image to Text with a source you can verify
Straighten and clean photographed paper only when it needs preparation.
Extract, edit, and compare the recognized text without inventing unreadable details.
OCR is a draft. Always verify important names, totals, codes, and dates against the image.