OCRRouterGet API key

Picture to text converter

Turn any picture with words in it into text. Drop in a picture, get the words back, ready to copy.

Result

Your Markdown or JSON shows up here.

3 free pages a day, no sign-up.

How it works

  1. Step 1
    Choose a picture
  2. Step 2
    We find and read the words in it
  3. Step 3
    Copy the text

Why use this Picture to text converter

No setup

Nothing to install and no account for a few pictures a day. Upload in the browser and copy the result.

Many formats

JPG, PNG, WebP and GIF are all accepted.

Over 100 languages

Text in Chinese, Arabic, Cyrillic, Hindi and other scripts is read without choosing the language first.

What people use it for

Models that do this well

The free tool picks one for you. With the API you choose, and can set fallbacks so a failed page is retried on the next model.

1Gemini FlashGeneral vision model with strong handwriting and layout understanding at a low price.google/gemini-flash3 credits / page2Mistral OCRFast document OCR that returns clean Markdown with tables and embedded images.mistral/mistral-ocr6 credits / page3PaddleOCR-VLOpen-source document model from Baidu. Excellent on Chinese, Japanese and Korean.paddle/paddleocr-vl2 credits / page4TesseractThe classic open-source OCR engine. Plain text from clean printed scans.tesseract/tesseractFree

Do it with the API

Converting more than a few files? The same conversion is one request. Pick any model, or let auto choose.

Get API key

curl https://api.ocrrouter.ai/v1/ocr \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OCRROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "auto",
    "file_url": "https://example.com/invoice.pdf",
    "format": "markdown"
  }'

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