Turn a photo, screenshot or scanned PDF into text you can copy, in English or Hindi. It runs in your browser, so your file never leaves your device.
Image to text, also called OCR for optical character recognition, looks at the shapes in a picture and writes out the letters it thinks they are. That turns a photo of a page, a screenshot or a scanned PDF into text you can copy, search and edit, instead of retyping it by hand.
People use it to copy a paragraph from a notice or a book, to pull the text out of a screenshot, and to read the words in a scanned form or question paper so they can paste them into a document.
The tool reads English, Hindi, or both. Pick English + Hindi for pages that mix the two, such as government notices and exam papers. It reads the page once in each language and keeps, line by line, whichever reading fits better. Pick a single language when the page uses only one, since that is faster.
Hindi is harder for a computer than English, because letters join into conjuncts and carry marks above and below the line. Clear printed Hindi is read well; small, faint or photographed-at-an-angle Hindi will have more mistakes, so check names, numbers and dates against the original.
Most online OCR sites send your picture to a server, where it is read and often kept for a while. Tooqly does not. The recognition engine runs inside your browser, using files served from Tooqly, so the image or PDF you choose never leaves your device.
That makes it suitable for documents you would not want to upload elsewhere, such as an ID card, a marksheet or a bank letter.
Take the photo straight on, in good light and with the page flat, and keep the text large and in focus. If the picture is a screenshot, use it as it is, because screenshots are the easiest input of all.
If the result has errors, try a tighter crop, a sharper photo or the right language setting, and read through the output once before you use it. For a scan of a PDF, the original file at its full resolution works better than a compressed copy.
Yes. There is no signup, no watermark and no limit on how many images you read. It costs nothing to run because your own browser does the work.
Yes. Choose Hindi or English + Hindi before you add the file. Hindi in printed text, such as books, notices, question papers and screenshots, reads well. Handwriting, very small text and blurry photos are much less reliable.
No. The text recognition engine and the language data are loaded from Tooqly itself and run on your device. The image or PDF you choose is not sent to any server, so it is safe to use with documents that are private.
The first time you use it, your browser downloads the text reader once (about 20 MB for English, a few MB for Hindi). The browser keeps it afterwards, so later files start much faster. Nothing you add is uploaded.
Yes. Each page is turned into an image and read in turn, up to 15 pages at a time. A PDF that already has selectable text does not need this tool; you can copy the text from it directly.
Use a sharp, straight, well-lit photo where the text is large and dark on a plain background. If a photo has pictures or a busy background, use "Select text area & read again" to read only the part you need, and choose the right language. Always read the result through once, because no text recognition is perfect.
Not reliably. This tool is built for printed text. Neat block capitals sometimes work, but cursive and most handwriting will come out wrong.
Yes. Add as many photos or screenshots as you like, or press Ctrl+V to paste a screenshot. Each one gets its own text box, and you can copy them all at once or save them as a .txt or Word file.