Use this PNG to Text Converter to extract textual data from your PNG images — simply upload your PNG files and get the extracted text in no time.
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PNG, JPG, WEBP · Max 50 MB · Up to 5 files
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Three simple steps — no software to install, no account required.
Upload a clear PNG file from your device or drag and drop it into the upload area.
Click the convert button and let the tool read the text from your image using OCR.
Review the result, make small edits if needed, then copy or download the text.
The tool is very simple to use. Upload your PNG image, convert PNG to text in just a few clicks, and get readable results without installing software or dealing with technical steps.
OCR technology reads visible text inside image files and converts it into editable text. This is helpful for screenshots, scanned documents, receipts, labels, forms, and image-based notes.
The tool is designed to give reliable results when the PNG image is clear and readable. Sharp text, good contrast, straight alignment, and proper lighting can improve the final output.
You can use the tool for free whenever you need quick image text extraction. It is useful for students, professionals, businesses, and anyone who wants to digitize text from PNG files.
Screenshots often contain useful text that cannot be selected directly. This tool helps you turn screenshot text into editable content for copying, saving, editing, or sharing.
Bulk conversion helps when you have several PNG files to process. Instead of handling each image one by one, you can save time by converting multiple files in a smoother workflow.
Use the tool from a desktop, laptop, tablet, or mobile browser. It works online, so you do not need a separate OCR app or image processing program.
Although the page is focused on PNG files, the tool also supports common image formats like JPG and WEBP. This helps users work with screenshots, scanned pages, and mixed file types more easily.
Uploaded files are handled with privacy in mind during processing. This helps you work with personal notes, office files, study material, and scanned images more confidently.
Students can use this tool to turn screenshots, class notes, scanned pages, and study images into editable text. It helps with assignments, revision notes, summaries, and research material.
Teachers can extract text from worksheets, learning screenshots, scanned activities, and classroom resources. This makes it easier to update lessons, create handouts, and reuse educational content.
Researchers often collect screenshots, scanned references, archive images, and image-based notes. Text extraction helps them search, organize, quote, and store useful information more efficiently.
Office users can process receipts, forms, meeting screenshots, scanned records, and image-based reports. The extracted text can be used in emails, documents, spreadsheets, and internal records.
Businesses can digitize product labels, invoices, receipts, customer forms, and scanned paperwork saved as PNG files. This supports faster record keeping, data entry, and document management.
Writers, editors, and content teams can reuse text from screenshots, briefs, research images, and visual references. It helps move information from static images into an editable workspace.
Screenshots are usually PNG files, which makes this PNG to text converter the quickest route from screenshot to text: error messages, chat threads, slides, web pages, and app screens come out as text you can copy. Take the screenshot, upload it, and copy the result, or save it as a PNG to TXT file. Text on a screen is normally sharper than a photo of paper, so results are often cleaner, though very small fonts, heavy compression, or low-contrast colour schemes reduce accuracy. Keeping the extracted text next to the original makes a searchable image archive: the picture stays as it is, and the text beside it can be found with an ordinary search.
A PNG to text converter is an online OCR tool that reads the visible text in a PNG image and returns it as editable text you can copy, edit, or download. This one is free to use without an account, and it also accepts JPG and WEBP images.
Upload the PNG and start the OCR. Once the result appears, select the text and paste it into your document, email, notes, or spreadsheet, or download it as a .txt file. Clear images with sharp text and good contrast give the best output. For other methods, see our guide to copying text from an image.
Scanned PNG files work when the text is visible and readable: straight pages, high contrast, and clean scans improve accuracy. The aim is readable text, not a copy of the design, so spacing, columns, and other visual formatting may need manual adjustment after extraction.
Sharp, high-contrast text is read accurately most of the time. Tiny fonts, decorative typefaces, text over busy backgrounds, and screenshots that were compressed or scaled down lose characters, and handwriting is better handled by a dedicated tool. Check numbers, names, and code before reusing the output.
On Windows, press Windows + Shift + S, capture the area, and save it. On a Mac, press Command + Shift + 4 and the screenshot is saved to your desktop. On a phone, take a normal screenshot from your gallery. Then upload the file here. PNG, JPG, and WEBP are all accepted.
Text is not always what you need. To combine screenshots into a single document, use the image to PDF converter. For handwritten pages, use the handwriting to text converter. To extract text from JPEG photos, try the JPG to text converter.
| Format | Accepted here? | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| PNG | Yes | Best for screenshots; up to 50 MB per file |
| JPG / JPEG | Yes | Photos and scans; up to 50 MB per file |
| WEBP | Yes | Images saved from the web; up to 50 MB per file |
| No | Use the PDF to text converter | |
| HEIC | No | Save the photo as JPG or PNG first |
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FAQ
Save the screenshot as an image, upload it here, and click Extract Text. Screenshot to text results are usually clean because on-screen text is sharp, but small fonts and low-contrast themes can reduce accuracy, so zoom in before you capture. Our guide to copying text from an image covers other ways to do it.
The converter accepts PNG, JPG/JPEG, and WEBP images up to 50 MB each. Without an account you can add up to five images at once; signed-in accounts can add more. PDFs are handled by the PDF to text converter, and HEIC photos need to be saved as JPG or PNG first.
Clean, high-contrast text, which is what most screenshots contain, is usually read accurately. Accuracy drops with very small fonts, heavy compression, low-contrast colour schemes, decorative typefaces, or photos taken at an angle. Check names, numbers, and code before reusing the text. Our guide to copying text from a picture has more tips.
Upload the PNG, click Extract Text, then press Download .txt to save the result as a plain text file, or Copy Text to paste it elsewhere. With several images, choose Merge for one combined text or Separate for one .txt file per image, downloaded together as a ZIP.
Your image is sent to our servers over an encrypted connection and processed to produce the text; read our Privacy Policy for how uploads are handled. As with any online converter, avoid uploading screenshots that contain passwords, banking details, or other highly sensitive information.
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