How to image to text converter
- Drop in a JPG, PNG or WebP with clear, printed text.
- On first use, your browser downloads the English and Hindi language data once.
- The text is recognised on your device and appears in a box you can edit.
- Copy it to the clipboard or download it as a .txt file.
What you can use it for
- Copy text from a screenshot or a photo of a printed page
- Get editable text from a notice, circular or form
- Extract Hindi text in Devanagari without typing it
- Pull an address, reference number or paragraph out of an image
Why use FlowVid Tools
- Private by design — your image is processed on your own device and is never uploaded to any server.
- Completely free and unlimited — no daily cap, no watermark, no sign-up.
- Fast — drop your image, get the result in seconds. No queues, no waiting.
Supported formats
This tool accepts JPG, PNG, WebP as input and gives you a text as output. Everything happens on your device in seconds — your file is never uploaded, so there is nothing for anyone to keep.
Getting accurate text out of an image
OCR is only as good as the picture it reads. Photograph the page straight on, so lines of text are level rather than sloping, and in even light without your phone's shadow across it. Fill the frame with the text you want; a whole desk with a small page in the middle leaves the letters too few pixels to read.
Screenshots are usually ideal, because the text is perfectly sharp and level. Photos of screens are the opposite — moiré and glare confuse the engine — so take a proper screenshot when you can. Whatever the source, read the result through before relying on it: OCR mistakes look plausible, especially in numbers.
How the OCR runs in your browser
The recognition engine is Tesseract, an open-source OCR library, running inside the page. The first time you use it, your browser fetches the English and Hindi language data from this site (no third-party server); after that, each image is processed on your phone or computer. The image itself is never sent anywhere — only the language data comes down, once.
On an older phone, a full page of dense text can take several seconds to process. That's the trade-off for keeping the image on your device instead of sending it to a server.