WholeFiles

Image to text

Read the words in a photo or screenshot into plain text. Free on WholeFiles, with no sign-up, no watermark and no daily limit.

Runs on our server. Your file is deleted within 10 minutes.Last reviewed 22 September 2026

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Questions

What kind of image works best?
Sharp, straight, well lit, with the text at least 20 pixels tall. A phone photo of a page taken from directly above works well; a photo at an angle does not.
Does it read handwriting?
Rarely. It is built for printed text.
Can I read a PDF this way?
Use Make a scan searchable for PDFs; it keeps the pages and adds the text.
Where does my image go?
To the WholeFiles server, processed, returned, and deleted within 10 minutes.

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