Image to Text (OCR) – English, Urdu & more

Copy the text out of a photo, screenshot or scanned page: English, Urdu, Arabic, Hindi and more. The text recognition runs in your browser; your picture is not uploaded.

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About the Image to Text (OCR) – English, Urdu & more

Copy the text out of a photo, screenshot or scanned page. Choose the language of the text, add one or more pictures and get the text ready to copy and edit. Urdu, English, both together, Arabic, Hindi, Persian, Bengali, Turkish, Chinese and several European languages are supported.

Text recognition runs inside your browser with the open-source Tesseract engine. The first time, it downloads the engine and the language data (a few MB); after that it is faster. Your picture is not uploaded.

Clear, straight, well-lit pictures give the best results. Printed Naskh Urdu is read better than Nastaliq (newspaper style), and handwriting is usually not read well, so always check names and numbers.

How to use it

  1. Add your inputChoose your file, then set the options.
  2. Press Run toolThe result appears right below the button.
  3. Copy or downloadUse Copy output, or the Download button for files.

This tool works inside your browser: what you enter stays on your device.

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Questions

Can it read Urdu text from an image?

Yes. Choose Urdu, or English + Urdu for mixed text.

Is my picture uploaded?

No. The recognition runs on your device. Only the engine and language files are downloaded the first time.

Can it read handwriting?

Not reliably. It is made for printed text.

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