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Image to text (OCR)

OCR a photo or scan into copyable text.

Drop files on the sheetPDF, Word, images, sheets — they stay on this device.

Guide

About Image to text

Pull the words out of a photo, screenshot, or scanned page with OCR. Recognition runs in your browser, so the image is never uploaded.

How to use Image to text

  1. Drop an image onto the sheet.
  2. Press Run and wait while the text is recognized.
  3. Copy the text from the preview, or download it as a .txt file and a PDF.

Frequently asked questions

Which languages can it read?
English only for now. Other Latin-script text may be partly recognized, but accented letters are often missed.
Can I process several images at once?
One per run: only the first image on the sheet is read.
Is my scan uploaded for OCR?
No. Recognition runs in your browser with Tesseract.js. On first use the browser downloads the recognition engine and English language data from a public CDN, but your file itself is never sent anywhere.