Guides
Step-by-step help for turning pictures into text — screenshots, scans, receipts, handwriting and more — and getting accurate results. Every guide uses small real examples you can check by hand.
What Is OCR? How Image to Text Conversion Works in Plain Words
You have a photo of a page, a screenshot of an error message, or a scan of a contract. The words are right there — you can read them — but your computer…
How to Convert an Image to Text (and Why Each Step Matters)
You have a picture with words in it — a screenshot, a scan, a photo of a whiteboard — and you need those words as text you can edit, search, or paste into…
JPG to Text: How to Convert JPG Images to Editable Text
JPG is the most common image format in the world, and it is also the most common format people need to convert to text. Every phone camera saves photos as…
PNG to Text: How to Convert PNG Images to Editable Text
PNG is the format of screenshots, diagrams, and anything with sharp edges. Unlike JPG, it compresses without throwing away a single pixel, which makes it…
Screenshot to Text: How to Copy Text From Any Screenshot
Every day, useful text gets stuck inside screenshots. An error message you need to search for. A table in a PDF that will not let you select it. A chat…
Handwriting to Text: What OCR Can (and Cannot) Read
Handwriting is the hardest thing you can ask OCR to read, and it is also one of the most common requests. Lecture notes, meeting notes on a whiteboard, a…
Receipt OCR: How to Convert Receipts to Text for Expenses and Bookkeeping
Receipts are the most practical thing most people convert to text. A shoebox of paper receipts becomes a spreadsheet. A photo of a restaurant bill becomes…
Scanned PDF Pages to Text: How to OCR a Scanned Document
A scanned PDF looks like a document, but to a computer it is a stack of photographs. Each page is an image, and the file contains no text at all — you…
Multi-Language OCR: How to Convert Images With Text in Other Languages
Most OCR guides assume the text is in English, and most OCR tools default to English. That is fine until the day you need to convert a Spanish invoice, a…
How to Improve OCR Accuracy: 12 Practical Fixes That Actually Work
OCR accuracy is not a fixed property of the software. The same engine can read one image at 99 percent and another at 60 percent, and the difference is…