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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.
More free conversions, where you upload. The Fylane extension does the same work inside any upload form, on its own free share every day.Add to Chrome
How to convert Image to text
- Drop the image or scan.
- Pick the language.
- 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 it once, not on every form
A form that wants a square JPEG under 240 KB says so on the page. The Fylane extension reads that, fits your photo to it, and puts it in the field — without you working out what 240 KB looks like.
And it keeps the result. The next application that asks for a résumé, a cover letter and a photo fills all three from one tap, each one refitted to what that site accepts.
Your files stay in the browser, encrypted, on your machine. Nothing is uploaded to keep them and nothing is sent anywhere to fill a form.
Related tools
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.