Text Extractor & OCR

A text extractor (or image-to-text converter) uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to transform the visible characters in an image or scanned document into editable digital text. Volade does all of this for free and 100 % locally: recognition runs directly in your browser through an embedded OCR engine, without your files ever being sent to a server.

This means three decisive advantages over most online OCR tools (iLovePDF, pdf2go, cardscanner, imagetotext...): your documents never leave your device, processing starts instantly with no queue, and it works even offline, with no account and no daily limit.

How to extract text from a photo?

Do you have a photo of a document, a screenshot, or an image that contains text? Drop the file (JPG, PNG, WebP, TIFF, BMP), choose the text language, then click "Extract text." The OCR reads the characters and displays them in an editor: you can then correct, copy the text, or export it as TXT, Markdown, or HTML. There is no upload, no sign-up, and no cost.

How to extract text from a scanned PDF?

A scanned PDF is a PDF that contains only images (no selectable text). Volade handles multi-page scanned PDFs: each page is rendered locally and then passed to optical character recognition, and all the texts are combined in the editor in order. You get a complete text document, exportable as a single file. Note that for a PDF that is already digital (native text), you can simply copy and paste the text, but our tool also gives you the OCR result in one click.

Convert an image to Word text

To convert an image or scan into a Word file, first extract the text with OCR, correct it in the built-in editor, then paste the result into your Word document. TXT, Markdown, and HTML export formats are also available if you prefer a plain text file, a structured document, or a web page.

Recognize text in multiple languages

The engine is multilingual: it recognizes French, English, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Arabic. Simply select the document language before extraction for better accuracy.

Improve extraction accuracy

OCR quality depends on the sharpness and resolution of the image. Volade offers preprocessing options to improve dull scans: binarization (black & white) which enhances the contrast of scanned documents, contrast enhancement for photos with strong lighting, and 90° rotation for documents photographed at an angle. Four extraction modes are available: Auto, Raw, Structured, and Layout.

Who is this text extractor for?

Students transcribing lecture notes into digital form, journalists digitizing articles, professionals recovering text from a scanned contract or invoice, developers capturing code, or anyone who simply wants to reuse the text from an image in a document. The tool stays simple and immediate: import, choose the language, extract, export.