# Image to Text (OCR) > Extract text from images using OCR. Supports 95+ languages. - Page: https://acepdfmd.com/tool/image-to-text/ - Updated: 2026-09-13 - Runs at: https://acepdfmd.com (Uploaded files are deleted within 60 minutes. No signup for light use.) - Also in 29 languages: https://acepdfmd.com//tool/image-to-text/ ## Extract text from an image with OCR A photo of a printed page, a screenshot of a contract, or a picture of a whiteboard all contain text you cannot select or search until someone types it out. Image to Text reads the picture and turns the words in it into text you can copy, search, and edit, which saves you retyping a page by hand. Set the language before you run it, or leave it on the auto-detect default and the tool reads the image first to pick the right language on its own. Over ninety-five languages are supported individually, and you can select more than one at once if a single image genuinely mixes two languages, such as a bilingual sign or menu. Once the text comes out, download it as a plain text file for quick copying elsewhere, or as a Word document if you want to keep some structure to edit further. Recognition quality depends heavily on the source image: a sharp, well-lit, right-side-up photo reads far more reliably than a blurry or heavily skewed one, and very small or stylized fonts can trip up any language setting. This tool handles one image at a time rather than a batch, so a stack of related pages needs to go through one by one. Your upload runs on the servers over an encrypted connection and is deleted automatically well within the hour. ## How to use the Image to Text (OCR) tool 1. Add your JPG, JPEG, PNG, WEBP, BMP, TIFF file: drag & drop or click to browse. 2. Set your options: Language, Download as. 3. Click “Process Image to Text (OCR)” and download your result. ## Common questions ### Is Image to Text (OCR) free? Yes. Image to Text (OCR) is free for light use with no signup needed. Anonymous visitors get 10 free tasks per day, and creating a free account makes daily use unlimited. A paid Pro plan removes ads and raises file-size limits for heavier work. ### Is my file safe? Yes. Your file is sent over HTTPS, processed by self-hosted open-source software on our servers (no third-party AI or cloud APIs), and deleted within 60 minutes at the latest, usually right after your result is ready. ### What file formats does Image to Text (OCR) accept? Image to Text (OCR) accepts JPG, JPEG, PNG, WEBP, BMP, TIFF files. Convert other formats to a supported one first; the related tools below can usually do it. ## Related tools - [OCR PDF](https://acepdfmd.com/tool/ocr-pdf/): Make scanned PDFs searchable by adding a text layer. - [Scan to Markdown](https://acepdfmd.com/tool/scan-to-markdown/): Turn photographed pages into clean, searchable Markdown text. The same deskew and shadow-removal cleanup as Scan to PDF, then OCR extracts the text into a .md file, page by page. - [Image to PDF](https://acepdfmd.com/tool/image-to-pdf/): Combine multiple images into a single PDF file. - [Scan to PDF](https://acepdfmd.com/tool/scan-to-pdf/): Turn photographed pages into a clean, professional scan: deskew, shadow removal, color/grayscale/B&W, and auto page-order by filename. - [PDF to Text](https://acepdfmd.com/tool/pdf-to-text/): Extract plain, unformatted text from a PDF. - [Convert Image](https://acepdfmd.com/tool/convert-image/): Convert between JPG, PNG, WebP, BMP, GIF, TIFF and more. Read the guide: [OCR for PDFs and Images: How to Get Accurate Text](https://acepdfmd.com/guides/ocr-guide/)