Extract text from photos and screenshots in English, Hindi and 13 more Indian languages โ free and private.
Note: Selecting mixed languages takes slightly longer as the AI loads multiple dictionaries.
Typing out text manually from a photograph, a scanned document, or a WhatsApp screenshot is incredibly tedious. It becomes even more frustrating in India, where most documents, memes, and signboards are written in a mix of English and regional languages like Hindi, Punjabi, or Marathi. Hargod.in's Multilingual Image to Text Converter eliminates this hassle completely. Powered by advanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, our tool reads the pixels in your image and instantly translates them into editable, cleanly formatted text in multiple languages simultaneously.
A common problem with generic OCR tools is that they only support one language at a time. If you upload a government document that has headings in Hindi and details in English, a standard tool will output complete gibberish for one of the languages. Our tool solves this.
By using the "Language Selector" dropdown, you can command our AI to load multiple language dictionaries simultaneously (e.g., Hindi + English). The AI intelligently detects which sentence belongs to which script (Devanagari or Latin) and extracts both perfectly into the same paragraph!
Raw OCR data is notoriously messy. It often includes random line breaks, weird spacing, and disjointed paragraphs that take hours to fix manually in MS Word. To fix this, we have integrated a custom Smart Text Cleaner Algorithm. After the AI extracts the text, our JavaScript engine automatically removes unnecessary double spaces, stitches broken sentences back together, and formats the output into clean, systematic paragraphs ready for immediate use.
If you are extracting text from confidential business contracts, Aadhar cards, or personal handwritten notes, security is your top priority. Most free OCR websites force you to upload your images to their remote servers, creating a massive privacy vulnerability.
Hargod.in utilizes a modern Client-Side Architecture (via WebAssembly). The entire OCR neural network is downloaded temporarily into your browser when the page loads. When you upload an image, it never leaves your computer. The text extraction happens directly inside your laptop's or smartphone's memory (RAM). We do not store, view, or log any of your documents.
Choose the language of the text, upload the image (or paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V) and the extracted text appears in a few seconds, ready to copy.
English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia, Urdu, Sanskrit and Nepali โ each mixed with English.
Use a sharp, well-lit image with straight text and select the correct language. Cropped screenshots give the best results.
No. The tool runs entirely inside your browser, so your files and data never leave your device. Nothing is stored or seen by us.
