Image to Text

Text in a picture that you'd rather not type out

A photo of a notice board, a screenshot from an online portal, a page from a book you want to quote. Typing it all again takes time and lets mistakes slip in. This tool reads the text in the image and gives it back to you as plain text you can copy or save.

Getting the text out

1. Upload the image: JPG, PNG, WebP or another common format.
2. Choose the language of the text.
3. Start the extraction, then copy the text that appears or download it as a .txt file.

Languages you can pick

The list offers Arabic and English together, Arabic only, French, English, Spanish and Turkish. Arabic is supported, so a photo of an Arabic form or letter can be read, and the combined option handles images where Arabic and English sit side by side, such as a receipt with Latin reference numbers. For an English invoice or letter, just pick English.

A sharper photo gives cleaner text

• Shoot the page straight on, not at an angle.
• Use good light and keep the shadow of your hand or phone off the paper.
• Check that the photo isn't blurry before uploading it.
• Handwriting is read less accurately than print, so proofread the result.

Where your image goes

The text is recognised on Jood's own server, using open-source software, with no third-party service involved. The image is sent there, processed in a temporary folder, and deleted from the server as soon as processing ends.

One image, or a whole scanned PDF?

This tool is for a single image whose text you want to reuse somewhere else. If you have a scanned PDF of several pages and want it to stay a PDF, only searchable and copyable, use OCR PDF instead. And if your photos are pages you want to combine into one file, JPG to PDF does that.

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