// Free browser tool

Image to Text Converter

Copy the text out of screenshots, photos of pages and scans, in English or Vietnamese. The OCR runs in your browser, so your images are never uploaded.

No upload to any server
No account
No watermark
Free, no sign-up

Add images

Drop images here, or click to chooseScreenshots, photos of pages or scans: PNG, JPG, WebP, BMP or GIF, up to 30 at a time. You can also paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V (⌘+V on a Mac).Stays on your computer · nothing is uploaded

Large files can be slow on phones, and very large ones may not open there at all. A computer handles them best.

// How it works

Three steps, all in your browser

Add images

Drop or choose up to 30 images, or paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V. Each one shows as a preview so you can check it first.

Get the text

Pick the language and the OCR reads each image on your device, one after another. Small screenshots are enlarged first so their letters read better.

Copy or download

Fix any wrong letters in the text boxes, then copy the text or save it all as one TXT file, each image under its own file name.

Good to know

Printed text only. Handwriting is not read, and decorative or comic lettering often comes out wrong.
English and Vietnamese only for now.
The text keeps its lines, but not the layout: columns can merge and tables come out as plain lines.
The first use downloads about 3 to 6 MB of reader files from tofutoon.com, depending on the language; your browser keeps them for next time.
Images up to 30 MB, 30 at a time. HEIC photos from iPhones need to be saved as JPG first.

Guides

// FAQ

Questions

Is this image to text converter free?

Yes. It is free to use, with no account, no daily limit and no watermark.

Are my images uploaded?

No. The text is read on your own device by an OCR engine that runs in the browser (Tesseract, as WebAssembly). Your images are not sent to our server or anywhere else. The only download is the reader itself, from tofutoon.com, the first time you use it.

Which languages can it read?

English and Vietnamese, including Vietnamese tone marks, or both in the same image. Other languages are not offered yet. Pick the language that is in the picture: in our test, reading Vietnamese with the English setting got about a quarter of the characters wrong, most of them accented letters.

How accurate is it?

Very accurate on clean text, less so on photos. On test images we made on 2026-11-11, screenshots in English and Vietnamese came out with 0 to 0.3% of characters wrong. A grainy, slightly blurred photo of a page had 0.8% wrong in English and 5.2% in Vietnamese, mostly tone marks. Blur, tiny or decorative letters and busy backgrounds make it worse, so read the text through before you use it.

Can it read handwriting or manga speech bubbles?

Handwriting, no: it is made for printed text. Comic pages read poorly too, because the lettering is stylised and the bubbles sit over artwork in a reading order the engine does not know. For manga, manhwa and webtoon pages, Tofu Image Text, our desktop app, is built for that job.

Does it work on phones?

The page is laid out for phones, but we have not yet timed it on a real phone. Phones are slower and have less memory than computers, so read a few images at a time there. On a recent Mac, each image took about 2 seconds once the reader had loaded.

SIZEINMM

Every KDP paperback size in inches and mm, with page limits and printing cost.

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Only use images you have the right to use. The text is read in your browser; nothing is uploaded or stored.