Convert photos to documents, extract text with OCR, and switch between JPG, PNG, AVIF and more — right in your browser. No installs, no sign-up, no waiting.
Nine tools for moving between pictures and documents in both directions — grouped by what you are trying to do. Everything runs in your browser, free, with no sign-up.
Get the content of a picture into something you can edit, present or send.
Render pages and slides as pictures you can post or embed.
A few minutes here saves a lot of correcting afterwards.
An image is pixels. A document is structure. Almost every problem on this page comes from moving between the two, and most of them are avoidable if you know what to check first.
Image to Document uses OCR to recognise characters. Accuracy depends far more on your photo than on the software: even lighting, camera held straight down rather than tilted, page pressed flat, tapped to focus. Five minutes of care here saves an hour of correcting afterwards.
JPEG was built for photographs and handles hard edges badly — and text is nothing but hard edges. Use PNG for screenshots, diagrams, charts and anything with type; JPG for photos, where the quality loss is invisible and the file is a fraction of the size. Converting a JPG to PNG afterwards does not restore lost detail; it preserves the damage in a bigger file.
Modern iPhones save as HEIC, which many websites, Windows apps and older software cannot read. HEIC to JPG converts them to a format everything understands. Worth doing before uploading anywhere that rejects the file.
Phone cameras record orientation as metadata rather than in the pixels, and not every piece of software downstream reads that tag. Open the image on a computer, rotate it, save it — the rotation is then baked in and travels correctly everywhere. Check the first photo before converting twenty.
A full-screen slide on a 1080p projector is 1920 pixels wide; 2560 covers large displays comfortably. Beyond that you add file size and nothing visible. The reverse matters more — upscaling cannot invent detail, so always start from the largest version you have rather than one already resized for email.
An image contains no words, no columns and no reading order — only coloured dots arranged so that a human eye reads them as text. Getting from one to the other means recognising letter shapes and guessing at layout, which works remarkably well on a clean page and poorly on a shadowed, angled photograph of a curved book.
Going the other way is simpler but has its own trade: once a slide or a page becomes an image, nobody can select a word, search engines read nothing, and screen readers find nothing at all. Each tool page sets out what you gain and what you give up, because both directions cost something.
Working with a scanned PDF rather than a photo? OCR PDF handles multi-page documents. Otherwise browse PDF tools, Word tools, Excel tools and PPTX tools.