Retyping a page of notes, a receipt, or a scanned contract is nobody's favorite job. With the ToolBox image-to-text tool, you photograph or upload it and get editable, copyable text back in seconds — powered by Surya, one of the most accurate open OCR models, and completely free.
What it can read
- Printed text: books, invoices, forms, tables, screenshots — 90+ languages, detected automatically (even mixed languages in one image).
- Handwriting: tick Handwritten text and a stronger handwriting-specialist model takes over. Slower, but it reads notes most OCR tools give up on.
- Scanned PDFs: up to 15 pages, processed page by page and returned as one clean text.
Getting the most accurate result
- Shoot straight-on, not at an angle; lay pages flat.
- Avoid shadows across the text — daylight or even lighting works best.
- Higher resolution beats zoomed-in crops; let the tool see the whole page sharply.
Then what?
The result opens in an editable box — fix anything, copy it with one click, or download as TXT. Word and character counts are shown so you know what you got. Your file is deleted from the server right after processing.
Try it now: Extract text from an image. Working with audio instead? The audio-to-text tool transcribes recordings the same way.