What Image Types can I Upload?
You can extract text from the following types of images:
- JPG
- PNG
- TIFF
- WebP
- GIF
To do this, simply:
- Drag and drop the image you want to extract the text from into the chat widget above.
- Or Press the 🗂️ button.
- Then hit Enter.
We’ll use an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) algorithm to scan your image or file and recognize the text content, which will appear in the chat widget above.
Once that’s done, you can copy to clipboard by clicking on the 📋 button and paste the resulting text anywhere you want.
How Does the AI Image to Text Converter Work?
1️⃣ First, the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) algorithm scans the image and extracts the rough text content.
2️⃣ Then, it rearranges the text into the right sequence and, if necessary, fills in information it could have missed if the original file was low quality. This process works with 98% accuracy.
3️⃣ Finally, it does a light editing pass to correct spelling mistakes, punctuation, and grammar.
You’re then left with an accurate text which also gets automatically spell-checked.
How to Pull Text From Images with Best Results
- Send one file at a time. You can upload one image or PDF at a time.
- Keep file sizes under 10MB. The bigger the file, the slower it will process, and the more mistakes the tool can make. If you have a large file, compress it before sending it.
- Take a clear picture. If your image is blurry or dark, the tool will still work, but the accuracy will be worse. Try to take a head on picture in bright light, fitting the entire document in the frame.
- Remember that output is plain text. You can copy the text and paste it into Word, Google Docs, or anywhere else.
- Use a stable Internet connection. For large files, extraction can take about 20 seconds. Lapses in internet connection might cause a network error.
Advantages of our AI Image to Text converter
✅📄🔬Can process low-resolution or blurry images. Even if the image is barely legible or almost impossible to read for a human, our tool can reconstruct the content and retrieve with a high degree of accuracy.
¥␀➖Detects and preserves special characters. This includes mathematical notation (like asterisks and equal signs, or complex formulas), or simple hyphens, tildes, dashes, and em-dashes.
🇬🇧🇪🇸🇰🇭 Works in any language. Our AI Image to Text converter isn’t just for converting English, French, Spanish, or other documents in popular western languages. You can use it to understand Arabic writing or even decipher a menu in a Vietnamese restaurant, or with exotic languages like Georgian and Armenian.
When to Use our Image to Text Converter?
👨💼For Work
Convert document scans, invoices, receipts, tables or .DOCX documents to plain text. You can use it to save time when you need to digitize paperwork, or process data for reports. Or, quickly digitize your sticky-pads, ideas on the whiteboard you’ve written down during a brainstorm, or handwritten meeting notes.
👩🎓 For Study
Are you still using old fashioned paper notebooks? They’re great for remembering things, but quite inconvenient when you need to share them. Simply snap your notebook page, upload the image into our AI Image to Text Converter, and get a perfect digital copy — formulas, notations and everything. You can also use this for textbooks, and whiteboards. Save time on transcription and keep all your study materials organized.
🙋♂️For Personal use
Convert grandma’s recipes, letters, handwritten journals, or even street signs from a foreign country into text you can save and share. Ideal for archiving, translating, or making hard-to-read content accessible.
🎨 To Extract Text from Complex Layouts
Our AI Image to Text Converter doesn’t just recognize standard text — it can also process documents with complex formatting:
- Newspapers and magazines; extract articles while keeping progression from column to column.
- Forms and tables; retrieve text from structured documents without losing any details.
- Historical documents; digitize old manuscripts and typewritten pages with high accuracy.
Tip: you can also use it to decipher your doctor’s handwriting.
How Does OCR Technology Work?
Our AI Image to Text Converter is powered by OCR (Optical Character Recognition). This technology reads characters in visual formats and converts them into machine-readable text. For additional accuracy, we use a fine-tuned, AI model on top of normal OCR. This helps Overchat AI extract text even from blurry images.
Technologies of OCR:
- Pattern Recognition: identifies shapes that look like characters or words.
- Large Language Model: predicts likely words based context.
- Error Correction: AI algorithms fill in missing letters or misread characters.
This is how you're able to extract text from image files — even if they’re old, scanned, or low resolution.
Best Use Cases: When to Convert Image to Text?
Upload a screenshot to text converter like Overchat AI when you need to:
- Quickly pull text from image PDFs, printed contracts, or scanned textbooks.
- Easily copy text from a picture of a tweet or website and paste it anywhere you like.
- Scan text from image sources.
- Extract structured content without losing formatting.
- Convert a JPG to Word format by simply upload your file, getting the text, and copy-pasting it.
Our AI can pull text from images in these formats:
- JPG / JPEG
- PNG
- GIF
- TIFF
- WebP
The best online free OCR tool?
There are a lot of free pic to text tools online, but most struggle with accuracy. Overchat AI is sets itself apart by offering:
- 💡 Get text from image with no sign up.
- 🔠 Support of different fonts, handwriting styles, and languages.
- 📄 High pic to text accuracy, even for PDF to text extractions.
Why Choose Our Image to Text Converter?
Here’s what makes us better than traditional OCR tools:
- ⚡ Fast results — no signup required.
- 🔍 Super text detection that works even on low quality pics.
- 🌐 Support of over 100 languages.
- 🆓 100% free to use.
Privacy And Security
Your files and extracted text are never stored or shared. The entire process is protected by SSL encryption, which ensures that all information you upload, whether it’s personal or work-related, remains totally confidential.
FAQ
How to copy text from a picture?
Upload the image to Overchat AI image to text tool — it’ll scan and pull out the text for you to copy.
On a Mac, you can also right-click an image and choose “Copy Text” if the system detects it.
How to copy text from a PDF image?
If the text is part of a scanned PDF or a screenshot, just upload it to Overchat AI image to text OCR tool. We’ll extract the text instantly. Copy it with one click.
How to convert image to text?
Use an image to text converter. Drag and drop your file (JPG, PNG, or PDF), and the tool will read the text inside. You can then copy and use it anywhere.
How accurate are image-to-text conversion tools?
It depends on the tool. Good ones (like Overchat AI) are about 95% accurate, but they'll occasionally make mistakes, like small typos.
Is there a way to copy text from an image?
Yes — use Overchat AI free OCR tool for any image. If you're on a Mac, sometimes you can also select text directly from an image using Live Text. Works on Macs with M1 and later.
Can I convert handwriting to text?
Yes. You can convert handwritten notes to text with Overchat AI’s free online OCR tool.
Take a picture of the note → upload it to Overchat AI → press enter. The tool will automatically pull the text.
Does Overchat AI work with screenshots?
Yes. You can extract text from screenshots using Overchat AI’s image to text converter.
Upload your screenshot → press enter. The text will appear in the chat box.
What image formats does Overchat AI support?
You can convert JPG, PNG, PDF, WebP, TIFF, or GIF files using Overchat AI’s OCR tool.
Upload any of these formats → press enter → copy the text from the result.
Can I extract text from a scanned PDF?
Yes. Overchat AI’s free OCR tool works with scanned PDF files.
Upload your scanned PDF → press enter → copy the extracted text.
Can I use Overchat AI on mobile?
Yes. Overchat AI’s online OCR tool works in any mobile browser.
Open the site → upload your photo or screenshot → get the text instantly.
What languages does Overchat AI support?
Overchat AI’s OCR tool supports over 100 languages.
Upload the image → the tool detects and extracts the text automatically, no settings needed.
More useful AI Tools
After extracting the text, you can use:
- AI Translator. Paste the text and translate it to over 100 languages. Unlike Google Translate, you can choose the style and stay in control of the tone.
- PDF Summarizer. A good alternative to OCR when you’re working with an editable PDF instead of an image or scan. You can get a short summary instead of full extraction.
- AI Question Answerer. OCR is a fascinating technology. If you agree, you might try asking AI more about it and learn — ask follow-up questions and get instant answers from our AI.