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Image to text

Read the words out of a photo, a screenshot or a scan. Copy them, or download as text.

Free · no sign-up · no watermark · up to 20 MB · uploads deleted after 24 hours, results after 7 days.

How to image to text

  1. Drop the image or scan.
  2. Pick the language.
  3. Press Read text, then copy or download.

What happens to your file

The image is straightened and cleaned, then read line by line. Ruled tables and boxes are erased before reading, so the lines do not swallow the words beside them — a fix found on real forms.

Accuracy depends on the photo: 300 DPI scans read near-perfectly; a phone photo of a page under a lamp reads well; a blurry photo of small print reads badly and the page shows you exactly what it got rather than guessing.

For a multi-page scan, use OCR PDF to get a searchable PDF instead of loose text.

Questions

Does it read handwriting?

Printed text only. Neat block capitals sometimes work; cursive does not.

How do I get better results?

Fill the frame with the page, keep it flat, avoid shadows, and pick the correct language.

Are the images kept?

Deleted after 24 hours; the text result after 7 days. Nobody reads either.

Do this in code

curl -X POST https://api.fylane.dev/v1/jobs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FYLANE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "file_id": "<file id>",
    "operation": "ocr",
    "options": {
      "language": "eng"
    }
  }'

The same operation, ocr — Text from images and scanned PDFs. Upload first with the quickstart; every option is on the operations page. 500 free credits a month, then $5 per thousand.