Convert JPG to text
Upload a JPG and get the text in it as editable text. Photos, scans saved as JPG and phone pictures all work.
Result
Your Markdown or JSON shows up here.
3 free pages a day, no sign-up.
How it works
- 1Upload your JPG
- 2We read the text in the image
- 3Copy the text or download it
Why use this JPG to text converter
Made for camera files
Most phones and scanners save JPG by default, so you can upload what you already have without converting it.
Text, not a picture of text
You get real characters you can search, edit, translate or paste into a document.
Layout kept
Paragraphs, lists and tables in the JPG come back as Markdown, not one long line.
What people use it for
- Getting text out of a scanned page your scanner saved as JPG
- Copying a recipe, notice or article from a photo
- Turning JPG exports of old documents into editable files
- Batch-reading JPG archives through the API
Models that do this well
The free tool picks one for you. With the API you choose, and can set fallbacks so a failed page is retried on the next model.
1Gemini FlashGeneral vision model with strong handwriting and layout understanding at a low price.
google/gemini-flash3 credits / page2Mistral OCRFast document OCR that returns clean Markdown with tables and embedded images.mistral/mistral-ocr6 credits / page3PaddleOCR-VLOpen-source document model from Baidu. Excellent on Chinese, Japanese and Korean.paddle/paddleocr-vl2 credits / page4TesseractThe classic open-source OCR engine. Plain text from clean printed scans.tesseract/tesseractFreeDo it with the API
Converting more than a few files? The same conversion is one request. Pick any model, or let auto choose.
curl https://api.ocrrouter.ai/v1/ocr \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OCRROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "auto",
"file_url": "https://example.com/invoice.pdf",
"format": "markdown"
}'Questions
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