OCR Image to Text

Extract text from images, scanned documents, and PDFs using optical character recognition.

Tools

Recommended Solutions

🥇 Gold

Google Keep

Simple OCR in Google ecosystem.

Take photo with Keep app, extract text instantly. Works offline, integrated with Google Drive. Surprising hidden feature that's very accurate.

Integrated Free
🥈 Silver

OnlineOCR

Web-based OCR service.

Upload image or PDF, get extracted text. Supports multiple languages and formats. Free tier with file size limits. Good for occasional use.

Web-Based Multiple Languages
🥉 Bronze

Tesseract

Open-source OCR engine.

Command-line OCR tool, most powerful but requires setup. Best for developers and batch processing. Free and open-source.

Open Source Developer