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JPG / JPEG to text (OCR)

Extract editable text from JPG and JPEG photos: documents shot with a phone, receipts, book pages, whiteboards with printed text.

🔒 Private by design: the conversion runs in this browser tab. Nothing is uploaded.

JPG / JPEG to text (OCR) is a free online tool by Hack the Hydra. Convert JPG and JPEG photos to editable text with free OCR in your browser. Phone photos of documents, receipts and notes. No upload.

100% freeNo upload: runs in your browserNo sign-up

Phone photos

Shoot the page flat and straight on, in good light without shadows, and fill the frame with the text. Rotation stored by the phone is handled.

JPEG compression

Heavy compression blurs small text. If results are poor, export the photo at higher quality or crop closer to the text.

How to use

  1. Drop your file in the box above, or click to pick it.
  2. Wait a few seconds while it converts locally.
  3. Copy the result or download it.

FAQ

Does it work with HEIC iPhone photos?

Browsers usually cannot read HEIC. Share or export the photo as JPG first.

Is my photo uploaded?

No, OCR runs in your browser.

Is JPEG the same as JPG?

Yes. JPG and JPEG are two file extensions for the same image format, so both work the same way here.

Can I convert several JPG files at once?

Run them one after another in the browser. For hundreds of images, the Image OCR API processes a list of image URLs in bulk.

Bulk conversion API

OCR thousands of images by URL with confidence scores and word positions: $1.50 per 1,000 images. Open the API →

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/extas_corp~image-ocr/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"imageUrls":[{"url":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdoc/main/images/eurotext.png"}]}'

Use it via API, with a free plan: Document to Markdown API (RapidAPI) · Apify

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