01 — Author

Image to Text team

02 — About

The Image to Text team builds and runs imagetotext.online, the free online tool that turns images, scanned PDFs and Office files into editable text (OCR). We write these guides to show how to get clean text out of photos, scans, screenshots and documents. Spotted a mistake? Tell us at support@imagetotext.online.

03 — Articles

Articles by Image to Text team

01

Scanned PDF vs Native PDF: Why Copy-Paste Fails and How to Fix It

02

PDF to Text vs PDF to Word vs PDF to Excel: Choose the Right Tool

03

OCR for Multiple Languages: Automatic Language Detection, No Settings

04

OCR for Developers: Extract Code and Error Messages from Screenshots

05

How OCR Extracts Tables from Images and PDFs

06

Google Lens vs Online OCR Tools: Which Fits the Job?

07

How to Extract Text from Video Frames and Screenshots

08

How to Extract Text from Social Media Screenshots

09

How to Extract Text from an Image on Your Phone

10

How to Convert Scanned Documents to Editable Word Files

11

Best Image Formats for OCR: JPG vs PNG vs TIFF

12

7 Free OCR Tools in 2026: What Each One Does, and Which to Pick

13

Batch Image to Text: How to Process Multiple Photos at Once