Image to Text
Free OCR in your browser. No account, no email, no watermark.
Drop an image to read it
JPG, PNG, HEIC, TIFF, WEBP, BMP — up to 3 MB. Your file is read on our servers in Frankfurt and deleted within the hour.
VisionParse converts images to editable text free in your browser, with no account and no email required.
The tool reads JPG, PNG, HEIC, TIFF, WEBP and BMP in 161 languages. In our 2026-08-01 measurements image resolution changed accuracy far more than file format or compression did. Uploaded files are deleted one hour after conversion.
What this tool does, in numbers.
- SPEED
VisionParse reads a clean page in 0.52 seconds on an 8-vCPU server.
- LANGUAGES
VisionParse recognises 161 languages, including Arabic, Sinhala and Tamil.
- ACCURACY
Image width above 550 pixels held 100% character accuracy in our resolution sweep.
- LIMIT
Accuracy fell to 56.8% when the same document was reduced to 300 pixels wide.
- ACCESS
The image-to-text tool requires no account, no email address and no payment card.
- RETENTION
VisionParse deletes free-tool files one hour after conversion and never trains models on them.
- COST
A VisionParse free account raises the monthly allowance to 100 pages at no cost.
Where the 550 px comes from.
Every figure on this page traces to a dated run on hardware we name. Nothing here is a vendor estimate.
Measured 2026-08-01
- Claim
- Character accuracy stays at 100% down to 550 px wide, then falls to 56.8% at 300 px.
- Method
- VisionParse standard recognition tier, single-threaded. Full methodology.
- Sample
- One synthetic invoice resampled to 1100, 800, 550, 400 and 300 px wide, each read through the production pipeline and scored against published ground truth.
- Measured
2026-08-01on Contabo Cloud VPS 8 — 8 vCPU AMD EPYC, 24 GB RAM, Ubuntu 24.04.4- Limitations
- A single synthetic document per variant is a small sample and is not a substitute for a corpus. These figures describe format behaviour, not general accuracy. A 500-document corpus run is scheduled and will supersede them.
- Contact
- VisionParse@senithu.lk
What this tool gets wrong
Small images fail sharply, not gradually. Accuracy held at 100% down to 550 px wide and 98.4% at 400 px, then collapsed to 56.8% at 300 px. There is a cliff rather than a slope, so a slightly-too-small scan can produce confident nonsense.
Arabic-Indic numerals come back wrong. VisionParse reads Arabic script cleanly on the free tier, but ١٢٣ returned as 1#|. Numeric Arabic documents should use the AI extraction tier instead.
Degraded phone photos still read. On a rotated, blurred, washed-out capture VisionParse returned one error — No, for No. — at 0.97 seconds a page.
Three steps, no account.
Drop your image
Drag a file onto the workbench, or choose one. Nothing leaves your device until you drop it.
We clean it up
Deskew, denoise and contrast normalisation run before recognition. This is what holds accuracy up on phone photos.
Take the text
Text appears with a confidence score. Copy it or download a .txt; the file is deleted within the hour.
What this tool accepts.
| Property | Free tool |
|---|---|
| Input formats | JPG, JPEG, PNG, HEIC, TIFF, WEBP, BMP |
| Output | Plain text, UTF-8 |
| Recommended minimum width | 550 px for 100% accuracy |
| Maximum file size | 3 MB |
| Rate limit | 5 files per hour, per IP address |
| Languages | 161, auto-detected or chosen manually |
| Recognition | VisionParse standard tier, multi-engine routing |
| File retention | Deleted 1 hour after conversion |
| Used for model training | Never |
| Processing location | Frankfurt, Germany |
When to use the API instead.
This page converts one file now. To convert files from your own software, the same engine runs over HTTP from Starter upward.
# same engine, from your code curl -X POST https://api.visionparse.app/v1/ocr \ -H "x-api-key: $VISIONPARSE_KEY" \ -F "file=@image.jpg" → 202 { "jobId": "c0df8e2c…" }
Use the API when
You convert more than a handful of files, convert on a schedule, or need results inside another system. Batch, webhooks and bounding boxes are API-only.
Frequently asked
Is this image-to-text tool really free?
Yes. The tool converts up to 5 files an hour with no account, no email address and no payment card. A free account raises the allowance to 100 pages a month, also at no cost.
Do you keep my images?
Files converted through the free tool are deleted one hour after conversion. Files uploaded to an account are deleted after 30 days. VisionParse never uses customer files to train models.
What image size works best?
Anything 550 pixels wide or more read at 100% accuracy in our measurements. Below 400 pixels accuracy drops sharply. If you are photographing a document, fill the frame rather than compressing the file.
Which languages does the tool read?
161 languages, including Arabic, Sinhala, Tamil, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Russian. Accuracy varies by language and script; the Arabic-Indic numeral limitation is documented on this page.
Can I convert a PDF here?
Use the PDF to text tool for PDF files. It rasterises and reads every page, not just the first one.