Read the text out of photos, screenshots and scans — OCR runs right on this page. Free in your browser — no sign-up, no watermarks.
Drop your Image files here
or click to browse — Select multiple files for batch conversion
⚡ Instant — conversion starts the moment you add files. No sign-up, no watermarks. Why FileHugger
Retyping text from a screenshot, whiteboard photo or scanned letter is miserable work. Drop the image and the OCR engine reads it for you — copy the result or download it as a text file. Choose English or Turkish; clear, well-lit images of printed text give the best results.
JPG is the most widely used photo format on the web. It uses lossy compression that keeps file sizes small while preserving the detail that matters in photographs. Nearly every device, browser, app and website accepts JPG, which makes it the safest choice for sharing and uploading pictures. It does not support transparency or animation.
TXT is plain, unformatted text — no fonts, no images, no layout, just characters. It opens on absolutely anything and is ideal for notes, logs, code and data exchange. Converting a PDF to TXT extracts its raw text for editing or searching; converting TXT to PDF produces a fixed, printable, shareable document.
Photos of documents, whiteboards after a meeting, screenshots of error messages, a book page snapped in a library — the words are visible but not usable. OCR reads the pixels and returns actual text you can search, edit, quote and feed to other software. Choose English or Turkish recognition; the chosen language model downloads once and is cached by your browser.
Recognition quality tracks capture quality with almost mechanical fairness: even lighting, a straight-on angle and sharp focus produce excellent text; glare, skew and motion blur produce guesswork. Shoot squarely and fill the frame with the text. Expect to proofread the output once — numbers, names and unusual words are where OCR earns skepticism — and you still come out far ahead of retyping.
Yes — completely free, with no sign-up, no watermarks and no daily quota. Processing happens in this browser, so the practical limit is the memory available on your device.
Yes. Add as many files as you like — each one is processed in sequence with its own progress status, and you can download the results individually or all together as a ZIP archive.
The engine and the one language model you picked are downloaded on first use and cached by your browser — English is about 11 MB, the other twenty-four are one to four. Later runs in the same language skip the download entirely; switching language fetches just that model.
On clear scans and screenshots of printed text, accuracy is typically excellent. Small, blurry, skewed or low-contrast text reduces it, and handwriting recognition is unreliable — OCR engines are built for print. Always skim the result before relying on it.
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