What Image to Text Converter does
Image to Text Converter opens one PNG, JPEG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, or WebP image and runs the self-hosted English Tesseract model in a Web Worker. The recognized text is shown for review and packaged as a downloadable TXT file.
OCR estimates characters from pixels; it does not recover an original document's fonts, columns, tables, reading order, or hidden text layer. Recognition quality depends strongly on resolution, focus, rotation, contrast, language, and page complexity.
How to use Image to Text Converter
- Choose one supported image no larger than 20 MiB and review its preview information.
- Use a clear, upright image with readable English text and strong foreground-background contrast.
- Select Recognize text and wait for the local worker's progress to complete.
- Compare every important word, number, and punctuation mark with the image before copying or downloading the TXT result.
Important details
Supported local OCR runtime
The browser loads self-hosted Tesseract worker, WebAssembly core, and English trained data after file interaction. WebAssembly and Web Worker support are required.
Recognition is not document reconstruction
Output is plain English text. Layout, images, handwriting, signatures, semantic tables, exact line positions, and document authenticity are not preserved or verified.
Practical uses
- Recover editable English text from a clear screenshot or scan.
- Create a draft transcript from a photographed printed page.
- Extract a short block of visible text for correction and reuse.
Privacy and limitations
The selected image and OCR operation remain in the browser; PagesTools does not upload the file. Downloaded text and browser caches remain under the device and browser's control.
Only the bundled English model is loaded. Handwriting, low resolution, skew, glare, unusual fonts, multiple columns, formulas, and non-English scripts can produce errors. OCR output must not be treated as an authoritative transcription without review.