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Text on a banner, slide, infographic or product card can’t be selected with the mouse: to the browser it’s part of the image, not letters. Retyping it by hand takes a long time, especially when there are several pictures. Add a picture from a website, an email or a messaging app here — the tool reads what’s written and turns the picture into plain text you can copy.

Pictures come with their own difficulties: the text sits on a photo or a colored background, the font can be decorative, and instead of the original you often get a scaled-down copy. So the result also depends on which file you start with. Below is how to copy text from an image with fewer mistakes.

Banner, slide, product card: what to keep in mind

  1. For a list of specifications, choose “As in the photo” — each item stays on its own line. Switch a product description to “Join lines” to paste it into an email or Word without broken lines.
  2. If a slide is entirely in English, keep only English switched on: with extra languages, recognition is a little slower and mixes up similar letters more often. For a card in Russian, switch Russian on — without it the text comes out noticeably worse.
  3. No need to convert a WebP from a website to JPG: save the picture as it is and add it here. PNG and GIF open directly too.
  4. Check SKUs, codes, phone numbers and website addresses against the picture: this is where the tool may mix up O and 0, I and 1, or a Latin letter with a Cyrillic one.

Which pictures read better and which read worse

Reads well

  • A slide or infographic with a regular font on a plain background
  • A product card with clear printed text
  • Large, high-contrast lettering on a banner

Reads poorly

  • Text over a busy photo or pattern
  • Decorative fonts that look like handwriting
  • A thumbnail or preview with blurry letters
  • A table in an infographic: only the text remains, line by line

How to copy text from a banner or slide

  1. Save the picture or take a screenshot. Drag the file here or tap “Choose photos”; paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V.
  2. If the photo card shows “Unclear”, look for the same picture in a larger size.
  3. Fix mistakes on the sheet and press “Copy text” or “Download .txt”.

When you need text from a picture at work

  • Supplier product cards A supplier sent product specifications as pictures. Extract the text from several cards in one go and move the sizes, material and description into your spreadsheet or catalog.
  • Webinar slides After a webinar, all you got was pictures of the slides. Add them in order — the text is combined into one, ready for notes or an email to colleagues.
  • A poster from a messaging app A partner sent you an event poster for your channel on Telegram. Save it to your gallery, extract the text on your phone and send it with the “Share” button.

Questions

Does it recognize decorative fonts?

Partly. The tool is made for printed text: the closer the font is to an ordinary one, the fewer the mistakes. Calligraphic, “handwritten” and fancy fonts read worse, so a short slogan in such a font is quicker to retype.

Can it read text over a photo?

Yes, if the text stands out clearly from the background. A busy background gets in the way: the tool may take its details for letters. So crop the picture tightly around the text, and check the places where the text blends into the background more carefully.

Why does a thumbnail read worse than the original?

In a thumbnail each letter gets only a few pixels, and fine details have already blurred together. The tool enlarges small pictures, but that doesn’t bring back what was lost. So on a website, open the picture at full size, and in a messaging app, ask for it to be sent as a file, since messaging apps compress photos.

How do I take only part of the text from a picture?

Press “Crop” on the photo card and drag the frame by its corners around the block you need — the text is read again automatically. That way you can take just the contacts and address from a banner. Or extract text from the whole picture and copy only the lines you need from the sheet.

The picture won’t save — what now?

Take a screenshot — to the tool it’s just another picture. Zoom in on the image on screen, press Win+Shift+S (on a Mac, Cmd+Ctrl+Shift+4), select the area and paste it here with Ctrl+V (on a Mac, Cmd+V). On a phone, take a screenshot and add it with “Choose photos”.

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