Batch Image to Text: How to Process Multiple Photos at Once
Amanda Montell
Extracting text from one image is easy. But what about 10 textbook pages, a stack of receipts, or a dozen whiteboard photos from a workshop? Processing them one at a time is tedious. Our image to text converter supports batch uploads — add up to 20 images in a single session and extract text from all of them.
How Batch Processing Works
Go to the image to text converter and drag multiple images onto the upload area at once. You can also click to browse and select multiple files.
All uploaded images appear as thumbnails in a strip at the top. You can add more images (up to 20 total) by clicking the + button.
Click Extract Text. The OCR engine processes all images in sequence.
Click through the thumbnails to view extracted text for each image. Copy or download the text from any or all of them.
Each image is processed independently. If one image fails (too blurry, unsupported format), the others still process successfully. You can also remove individual images and add replacements without restarting.
When to Use Batch Processing
Digitizing Multi-Page Documents
Photograph each page of a document — a contract, a manual, a report — and upload all the photos at once. Extract text from every page in one session. For documents that are already in PDF format, the PDF to text converter handles multi-page files natively.
Processing Receipts and Invoices
Snap photos of all your receipts at the end of the week, upload the batch, and extract the text. For tabular data like line items and totals, use the JPG to Excel converter instead — it also supports batch uploads and outputs structured spreadsheets.
Student Study Sessions
Photograph a chapter's worth of textbook pages, lecture slides, or handwritten notes and extract all the text in one go. Copy it into your notes app for searchable study material.
Workshop and Meeting Notes
After a brainstorming session, photograph every whiteboard, flip chart, and sticky note cluster. Upload the batch and extract all the text. Share the extracted content with your team instead of asking everyone to decipher photos.
Tips for Efficient Batch Processing
- Take all your photos first, then upload them all at once rather than processing one at a time
- Use consistent lighting and angle across all photos for uniform quality
- Name your image files descriptively before uploading so you can match extracted text to the right source
- For very large batches (50+ images), process in groups of 20 and save the extracted text after each group
- Use your phone's document scanning mode for cleaner, more consistent captures
Output Options for Batch Jobs
The batch upload works across all our conversion tools. Need plain text? Use the homepage converter. Need Word documents? The JPG to Word converter processes batches too. Need spreadsheets? The JPG to Excel converter handles multiple images with table detection on each one. Choose the tool that matches your output format needs.
Frequently Asked Questions
Up to 20 images per session. Each image can be up to 5MB. There is no daily limit — you can start new sessions as many times as you need.
Currently, you download or copy the text for each image individually by clicking its thumbnail. For most workflows, this takes only a few seconds per image.
Each image is processed independently. Bad quality images may produce poor results or errors, but they do not affect the other images in the batch. You can remove failed images and add replacements.
Each image takes a few seconds to process. A batch of 20 images typically completes in under a minute. The images are processed sequentially, not in parallel.
Upload multiple images and extract text from all of them in one session.
Batch Extract Text