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Hindi OCR – Image to Text

Copy the text from photos, screenshots, and scanned PDFs in English, Bangla, Hindi, Arabic, and 25+ more languages. Paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V. Your files never leave your device.

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Language of the text

Choose every language on the page, up to 3. The first run downloads about of language data; after that it’s instant.

Tips for better results

  • Take photos straight on, in good light, with the text filling the frame.
  • Crop away anything that isn’t text.
  • Printed and typed text works best. Handwriting usually doesn’t.

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Click to choose images or a PDF, or drop them here

Or paste a screenshot with Ctrl + V · JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP, PDF

About Hindi OCR – Image to Text

Hindi OCR reads printed Devanagari from a photo, screenshot, or scanned page and gives you Unicode text you can edit in Word or Google Docs. Hindi and English are both selected, so mixed documents such as forms and bills come out right. Printed text in Mangal, Kokila, and similar fonts reads best, and pages printed from old Kruti Dev files come out as proper Unicode. Very small or decorative type and handwriting don’t read well.

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About the Image to Text (OCR)

The image to text converter (OCR, optical character recognition) reads the words in a picture and gives them back as text you can copy, edit, and search. It works on photos of documents, screenshots, receipts, and scanned PDFs, in English and more than 25 other languages including Bangla, Hindi, Arabic, and Urdu.

How to use it

  1. 1 Pick the language of the text. Choose two if the page mixes languages.
  2. 2 Drop in images or a PDF, click to choose them, or paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V.
  3. 3 Copy the text, or download it as a .txt file.

Frequently asked questions

Are my images uploaded?

No. The text is read in your browser, so your images and documents never leave your device. Only the free OCR engine and the language data are downloaded the first time, then your browser keeps them.

Which languages can it read?

English, Bangla, Hindi, Arabic, Urdu, Persian, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Nepali, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Indonesian, Malay, Vietnamese, and Thai. Pick up to three at once for mixed pages.

Can it read Bangla?

Yes. Choose Bangla (it is preselected on the Bangla OCR page) and printed বাংলা comes out as Unicode text you can paste into Word, Google Docs, or Facebook.

Can it read handwriting?

Not reliably. It is built for printed and typed text. Very neat block capitals sometimes work, but joined-up handwriting usually doesn’t.

How do I get the best results?

Use a sharp, well-lit image taken straight on, with the text filling most of the picture. Crop away anything that isn’t text and choose the right language. Small images are enlarged automatically before reading.

Can it read a scanned PDF?

Yes. Pages that already contain text are copied exactly, and scanned pages are read with OCR, one page at a time.

Is it free?

Yes, with no sign-up, no watermark, and no limit on the number of images.