Image to text is on the way
This one needs more than your browser can do on its own, so we are building it carefully rather than shipping something half-baked. In the meantime, our core tool turns any image into a shareable link in seconds — completely free, no signup.
Image to Text So You Can Copy Words Out of a Picture — Coming Soon
An image to text reader is on the way. Hand it a screenshot, a photo of a page, or a scanned note and it will pull out the words so you can copy and paste them instead of retyping. The tool is launching soon. Until then, you can turn any image into a free shareable link right here, no account needed.
Whether you want to extract text from an image, use an image to text converter, or run OCR on a picture, this page covers the tool we are building to do it.
The image to text tool will read the words inside a photo or screenshot and turn them into selectable text you can copy. It is not live yet but is launching soon. In the meantime you can turn any image into a free shareable link here, with no signup.
Turn an image into a link now
The image to text tool is launching soon. While you wait, drop any image here and get a free shareable link, no signup.
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Upload your image when it launches
Once the image to text tool goes live, you will drag in or pick a screenshot, photo, or scan that has words in it. JPEG, PNG, and WebP will be supported.
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Let it read the words
The tool will scan the picture for text and recognize the characters, including printed paragraphs, headings, and most clear handwriting.
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Copy the extracted text
You will get the words back as selectable text in a box, so you can copy all of it or just the part you need and paste it wherever you are working.
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Get a shareable link right now instead
While the text reader is still being built, you can already drop any image onto imagepaste.org and get a free short link to share the picture itself in chat, a doc, or a ticket.
Why an image to text tool saves real time
Retyping words out of a screenshot or a photo of a page is slow and easy to get wrong. An image to text tool, also called OCR, reads the characters straight out of the picture so you can copy and paste instead. That turns a receipt, a slide, a book page, or an error message into editable text in seconds, far faster than typing it by hand. The honest reason this is not live yet is that accurate text recognition needs a trained model running behind an API, not the simple in-browser canvas work that powers our crop and compress tools. We are building it so the output is clean and keeps the line breaks roughly where they belong rather than returning a jumble. It is launching soon.
What you can do here today
While the image to text tool is still being built, the core tool on imagepaste.org already turns any image into a shareable link. Drop, paste, or pick a file and you get a short URL you can drop into a chat, a ticket, a forum post, or a doc, free, with no signup and no watermark. So if you mainly need to send a screenshot of some text to a colleague or a support agent, you can do that now without waiting for character recognition. And when the image to text tool launches, you will be able to both read the words and, if you want, share the original picture as a link from the same place.
Reads printed text
When it launches, the tool will recognize printed paragraphs, headings, and labels in screenshots, photos, and scans, returning them as copyable text.
Copy and paste output
The extracted words will appear as selectable text so you can grab all of it or just a part and paste it where you are working.
Free and no signup
The image to text tool will be free with no account, matching the core image-to-link tool you can already use today.
Handles screenshots and photos
It is being built for screen captures, phone photos of pages, receipts, and scans, not just clean documents.
Share the picture as a link too
You can already turn the original image into a short URL here, and that will sit alongside the text reader once it lands.
Copy text out of a screenshot
Pull the words from a screen capture of a chat, an article, or an error message so you can paste them into a search, a reply, or a ticket instead of retyping. This is a core job the tool is being built for.
Get text off a photo of a page
Snap a photo of a book page, a sign, or a printed form and turn it into editable text you can quote, translate, or store.
Lift a long error message
Copy a long error or log line out of a screenshot so you can search it or paste it into a bug report without typos.
Share the picture as a link
Right now you can already turn any image into a free shareable URL here, which is handy when you want to send the screenshot itself rather than just its text.
Is the image to text tool available yet? +
Not yet. It is launching soon. Accurate text recognition needs a trained model behind an external API, which we are still building, so this page describes what the tool will do rather than claiming it works today. The core image-to-link tool on imagepaste.org works right now and is free.
What will image to text cost? +
It will be free with no account, the same as every other tool here. There is no plan to put text extraction behind a paywall or a signup wall.
What can I use right now instead? +
You can turn any image into a shareable link today. Drop, paste, or pick a file and you get a short URL to send in chat, a doc, a ticket, or a listing, free and with no signup. That lets you share a screenshot of text even before the reader lands.
What is OCR? +
OCR stands for optical character recognition. It is the technology that reads the letters and numbers inside an image and turns them into text you can select and copy, which is exactly what this tool will do.
Will it read handwriting? +
The focus is printed text, where recognition is most reliable. Clear, neat handwriting may work, but messy or stylized writing is harder, so results there will vary once the tool is live.
Will it keep the layout of the text? +
The aim is to return the words with line breaks roughly where they appear, so a paragraph stays readable. Complex layouts with columns or tables are harder and may come back as plain lines of text.
Which formats and languages will it support? +
The plan is to accept common image formats including JPEG, PNG, and WebP. Language support will start with widely used scripts and grow over time. This page will be updated as the details firm up.
Will I need to sign up or install anything? +
No. It will run in the browser with no account and no extension, just like the image-to-link tool you can already use on this site.
When will it launch? +
Soon. We would rather ship a reader that returns clean, accurate text than a rushed one full of mistakes, so there is no hard date yet. Use the working image-to-link tool here in the meantime.