Free Tools
Small OCR and transcription utilities I run for my own projects, opened up for anyone to use. No signup, no watermark.
Image to text (photo & JPG/PNG OCR)
Upload a photo of a whiteboard, a screenshot of a menu, or a JPG/PNG of a receipt and get clean, editable text back. Useful for pulling quotes out of a screenshot, digitizing a handwritten note, or grabbing text from an image someone sent you that you can't select or copy.
Scanned document to text (OCR)
Convert a scanned PDF or DOCX — a contract, an old report, a form you photographed at an office — into searchable, copy-pasteable text. Handles both born-digital PDFs and pages that are pure scanned images.
YouTube video to transcript
Paste a YouTube link and get a full text transcript back — for pulling quotes out of a talk, skimming a long tutorial without watching it, or feeding a video's content into notes or a summary.
TikTok transcript
Turn a TikTok clip into text — captions, spoken narration, or both — so you can quote it, translate it, or repurpose it without re-watching and manually transcribing.
Instagram reel to text
Extract a transcript from an Instagram reel or carousel — the spoken audio and any on-screen text — for saving a recipe, a tutorial, or a recommendation someone posted without typing it out by hand.