Copy Text From Any Image — Instantly
The fastest way to extract text from images, PDFs, handwritten notes, and screenshots. Powered by Google Cloud Vision AI. Free, with no registration required.
Whether you need to copy text from a photo, convert handwriting to text, pull words from a scanned PDF, or grab text from a screenshot — CopyImageToText does it in seconds. Just upload your image and click Extract.
Drag & drop your images here — or click to upload
Supports JPG · PNG · PDF · WEBP · HEIC · GIF · TIFF · BMP · Multiple files at once · Or paste with Ctrl+V
Uploaded files deleted immediately · Signed-in users keep extraction history
No sign-up needed · Works on any device
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How to Copy Text From an Image — 3 Simple Steps
Extracting text from an image has never been easier. No software to install, no account to create. Our free online OCR tool works directly in your browser on any device.
Upload Your Image or PDF
Drag and drop your file onto the upload area, click to browse from your device, or paste an image directly from your clipboard using Ctrl+V (Windows) or Cmd+V (Mac). You can also enter an image URL. We accept JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, WEBP, BMP, HEIC, and PDF files.
Our AI Extracts Every Character
Click the Extract Text button. CopyImageToText uses Google Cloud Vision — one of the world's most accurate OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engines — to scan and identify every letter, number, and symbol in your image. It works on printed text, handwritten notes, scanned documents, screenshots, and photos. Results appear in seconds.
Copy, Download, and Use Your Text
Your extracted text appears in a clean, editable box. Click Copy to Clipboard to instantly copy everything, or click Download as .txt to save the file to your device. Paste your text directly into Word, Google Docs, Notion, WhatsApp, email — anywhere you need it.
Everything You Need in a Free Image to Text Converter
CopyImageToText is built for accuracy, speed, and privacy. Here is what makes it the most accurate free OCR tool online.
Instant Extraction — Results in Seconds
Upload your image and get clean, editable text in under five seconds. Our AI-powered engine processes images at speed without sacrificing accuracy — even on complex layouts, mixed fonts, or dense paragraphs.
Handwriting to Text — Any Style, Any Script
Our OCR is powered by Google Cloud Vision AI, which is specifically trained to recognise handwritten text. It handles neat print, messy cursive, mixed handwriting styles, and even partially illegible notes. Upload a photo of your written notes and get clean digital text instantly.
Private and Secure — You Control Your Data
Your uploaded files are transferred using HTTPS encryption and are never permanently stored on our servers. Guest users get their extracted text returned instantly — nothing is saved. Signed-in users can save extractions to their personal history and delete them at any time. We do not sell or share your data with advertisers or third parties.
50+ Languages Including Arabic, Chinese, and Hindi
CopyImageToText works with text in over 50 languages. Whether your image contains English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Turkish, or any other supported language — our tool extracts it accurately.
PDF Support — Including Scanned Documents
Upload any PDF and extract all the text from it — including scanned PDFs where the content is saved as images. No need to convert your PDF first. Just upload the file directly and copy the text straight out.
Works on Any Device — Mobile, Tablet, Desktop
CopyImageToText is fully responsive and works in any web browser on any device. Take a photo of handwritten notes on your phone, open the site, upload, and copy the text — all without installing any app or software.
Multiple Formats — JPG, PNG, PDF, WEBP, HEIC and More
Copy text from JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, WEBP, BMP, HEIC, and PDF files. Upload from your device, drag and drop, paste from clipboard, or provide a URL. No format conversion required before uploading.
High Accuracy on Low-Quality Images
Built on the same AI technology used in Google's own products, our image to text converter maintains accuracy even on blurry photographs, low-resolution scans, slightly skewed documents, and images with complex backgrounds.
Handwriting to Text Converter — Turn Any Written Notes Into Digital Text
Do you have notebooks full of handwritten notes you need to search, share, or edit? CopyImageToText converts handwriting to digital text in seconds. Snap a photo of your notes, upload the image, and get clean, editable text you can paste anywhere. Our AI handles everything from neat printed letters to fast, messy cursive writing.
Converting handwriting to text has traditionally been slow, inaccurate, and frustrating. Standard OCR tools are built for printed, typed fonts — not the natural variation of human handwriting. CopyImageToText uses Google Cloud Vision AI, a model trained on billions of real handwriting samples across dozens of languages and scripts. The result is industry-leading accuracy on handwritten notes, letters, forms, journals, and field notes.
Take a clear photo of your handwritten document using your phone or scanner, upload it to CopyImageToText, and the tool extracts the text in seconds. Works with handwritten notes in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Arabic, and 45+ other languages.
Students — Digitise Lecture Notes Instantly
Stop typing up your handwritten lecture notes. Photograph your notebook pages, upload them to CopyImageToText, and convert your handwritten notes to text in seconds. Copy straight into Notion, Google Docs, or your revision app. Never lose a page of notes again.
Professionals — Meeting Notes and Field Reports
Whether you write meeting notes on paper, capture whiteboard diagrams, or keep handwritten field reports, CopyImageToText turns them into searchable, shareable digital text. Extract notes from a whiteboard photo in real time and email the text before you leave the room.
Medical — Convert Handwritten Prescriptions and Clinical Notes
Healthcare workers can digitise handwritten prescriptions, patient notes, and clinical records using our handwriting OCR tool. It is accurate on medical terminology and handles the variable handwriting styles common in clinical environments.
Legal — Digitise Handwritten Documents and Annotations
Legal professionals can extract text from handwritten case notes, annotated contracts, witness statements, and historical documents. Our tool preserves the reading order of the original text so the output is clean and ready to use.
Researchers and Historians — Transcribe Archived Documents
Convert handwritten diaries, historical letters, manuscripts, and archival documents into editable digital text. Our AI handles older handwriting styles and faded text from aged documents.
PDF to Text Converter — Extract Text From Any PDF File Free
Struggling to copy text from a PDF? CopyImageToText lets you extract text from any PDF — including scanned documents where the text is saved as images, not selectable characters. Upload the file, and our OCR engine reads every page and returns clean, copyable text.
Many PDFs — especially scanned contracts, old records, government documents, and faxed forms — contain text that is embedded as images. You cannot select or copy it in a normal PDF viewer. CopyImageToText solves this by scanning the image content of your PDF using advanced OCR technology and converting it into fully editable text.
Simply upload your PDF to the tool. Our engine automatically handles the conversion — there is no need to convert your PDF to JPG first. Get all your text extracted, formatted cleanly, and ready to copy or download in seconds.
Scanned Contracts and Legal Documents
Invoices, Receipts, and Financial Records
Academic Papers and Research Documents
Archived and Government Documents
Screenshot to Text — Copy Text From Any Screenshot Instantly
Developers — Copy Error Messages and Code From Screenshots
Got an error message or code snippet in a screenshot? Upload it to CopyImageToText and get the full text in seconds — ready to paste into your terminal, Stack Overflow, or your debugging workflow.
Content Creators — Extract Text From Social Media Screenshots
Extract quotes, captions, and comments from screenshots of Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, or TikTok posts. Get the text in seconds without retyping a word.
Researchers — Extract Data From Charts and Presentations
Copy data, labels, and annotations from chart screenshots, slide decks, and presentation captures. Turn visual data into editable text for your research notes.
Students — Copy Notes From Lecture Slides
Take a screenshot of a lecture slide or presentation, upload it, and get all the text extracted instantly. No more retyping slide content into your notes.
Who Uses CopyImageToText — And How
From students to software developers, our free image to text tool is used by people around the world who need to quickly extract, copy, and reuse text from images.
Students
Digitise lecture notes, textbook pages, and flashcards. Convert handwritten notes to text before exams. Copy slide content from lecture recordings.
Business Professionals
Extract text from business cards, scanned contracts, meeting whiteboards, and invoice images. Turn any paper document into editable digital text instantly.
Legal Professionals
Digitise case notes, annotated documents, witness statements, and handwritten legal filings. Get accurate text output with proper reading order preserved.
Medical and Healthcare Workers
Convert handwritten prescriptions, clinical notes, and patient records into digital text. Accurate on medical terminology and complex handwriting styles.
Developers and Technical Teams
Extract error messages, log snippets, and code from screenshots in your browser. A public API is not offered at this time.
Travellers and Language Learners
Photograph signs, menus, and notices in foreign languages and extract the text for translation. Works with 50+ languages including Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Hindi.
Supports 50+ Languages — Extract Text in Any Script
Our image to text converter accurately extracts text written in over 50 languages. Whether your image contains Latin script, Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese characters, Japanese kanji, or Devanagari — CopyImageToText handles it.
Don't see your language? Our tool uses Google Cloud Vision AI which supports an expanding list of scripts and languages. Try uploading your image — it very likely works.
Powered by Google Cloud Vision AI — Industry-Leading OCR Accuracy
CopyImageToText is built on Google Cloud Vision's DOCUMENT_TEXT_DETECTION API — the same underlying technology used across Google's own products. This is not a basic open-source OCR engine. Google Cloud Vision is trained on billions of real-world documents, images, and handwriting samples, giving it unmatched accuracy across languages, fonts, handwriting styles, and image qualities.
When you upload an image, our system sends it to Google Cloud Vision for processing. The AI identifies every character in the image — including printed text, handwritten text, numbers, symbols, and punctuation — and returns a structured result. We then format that result into clean, readable text and display it in your output box.
The result is accuracy that outperforms every free Tesseract-based OCR tool on the market — especially for handwriting, complex layouts, multi-language images, and low-quality scans.
Technical Specifications
Your Files Are Private — Always
We take your privacy seriously. Files are transferred with HTTPS encryption. Uploaded files are never permanently stored on our servers. As a guest, extracted text is returned to your browser and not saved. If you sign in, you can keep extractions in your private history and remove them whenever you like. We do not sell or share your data with advertisers or third parties.
Pricing — free image to text, no paid plans
CopyImageToText is free to use online. We do not sell subscriptions, Pro tiers, or any paid add-ons right now. There is nothing to purchase on this page: OCR from images and PDFs is available at no cost with reasonable daily use limits so the service stays fast for everyone.
What is included at no charge
- 25 extractions per day (resets every 24 hours)
- PDFs up to 10 pages per upload — each page counts as 1 extraction
- Max file size 10 MB per upload
- Supported formats: JPG, PNG, PDF, WEBP, GIF
- Handwriting and printed text via Google Cloud Vision AI
- 50+ languages, copy to clipboard, download as .txt
- No sign-up required; HTTPS encryption
If we introduce optional paid features in the future, this page will be updated first. Until then, you will not be asked for payment to use the core image-to-text tool on CopyImageToText.com.
CopyImageToText vs Other Image to Text Tools
See how CopyImageToText compares to the most popular OCR tools and image to text converters.
| Feature | CopyImageToText | imagetotext.info | Google Lens | Adobe Acrobat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free to use | Yes — no sign-up | Yes (with ads) | Yes | No (subscription) |
| OCR engine | Google Cloud Vision AI | Tesseract (open-source) | Google Vision | Adobe AI |
| Handwriting support | Yes — high accuracy | Basic | Yes | Limited |
| PDF support (scanned) | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Screenshot support | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| No watermark | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Privacy / file deletion | Guest: instant delete · Signed-in: history stored, user-controlled | Not clearly stated | Google stores data | Synced to Adobe cloud |
| Languages supported | 50+ | 22 | 100+ | 40+ |
| API access | Not publicly offered | No | Yes (paid) | Yes (paid) |
| Mobile friendly | Yes — no app needed | Yes | App required | App required |
| No sign-up required | Yes | Yes | Google account needed | Yes |
Frequently Asked Questions About Copying Text From Images
Everything you need to know about how to extract text from images, handwriting, PDFs, and screenshots using CopyImageToText.