Extract Text from Image & PDF

Turn an image or PDF into text you can review, copy and save.

No files uploaded to a server
  • Images and PDFs
  • English or Turkish text
How it works

How to extract text

  1. Add a photo, screenshot or PDF.
  2. Choose English or Turkish for scans. For a long PDF, enter a page range.
  3. Click Extract text, correct any errors, then copy or download the text.

Compare selectable PDF text with image recognition

Add the four-page practice report, choose English, enter 2-3 in Pages and click Extract PDF text. The plain-text result should contain the Checklist and Schedule headings and their page text. These pages already have a text layer, so their words are copied directly.

For a scan-style test, open the same report in PDF to Image, render page 2 as PNG at 150 dpi, and add that downloaded image here. Choose English and click Extract image text. Recognition should find Checklist, but spacing, reading order and characters can differ; compare against the original and correct the result before Copy text or Download .txt.

This exports plain text without the original page layout or a searchable PDF layer. Only English and Turkish recognition are offered; multi-page TIFF images are read as their first page here. Convert the TIFF with TIFF to PDF first to work through all its pages.

Frequently asked questions

Useful details

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Are files uploaded?

No. The file is read in your browser. The OCR code and language data are downloaded from Toolkitta when needed.

Can I edit the result?

Yes. Correct the extracted text in the result box before copying or saving it.

Will this make my PDF searchable?

No. This tool extracts editable plain text. It does not alter the original PDF.

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Edit the document

Use the complete page workspace for supported text and image edits, forms and signatures.