# Hindi image to text (OCR)

> Extract Hindi text from photos, screenshots and scanned PDFs in your browser, in Devanagari. Copy or save as .txt. Free, no upload.

URL: https://tools.cuelark.com/image-to-text-hindi
Publisher: Cuelark Team (https://cuelark.com)
Updated: 2026-11-10
Price: free, no sign-up
Privacy: runs in the browser; files are not uploaded

Get Hindi text out of photos, screenshots and scanned documents as Unicode Devanagari you can paste into Word, WhatsApp or Google Docs. English words in the same text are read too.

## How to use it

1. Check that the language is Hindi; tick Also read English if the text mixes in English words.
2. Drop the image or scanned PDF, or paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V. The first run downloads the language data.
3. Copy the text or save it as a .txt file. Check names and numbers against the original.

## Details

- **Engine:** Tesseract 5 LSTM via tesseract.js 7 (Apache-2.0), running in a Web Worker in this tab
- **Language:** Hindi, or any of 120+ Tesseract languages from the list. Mixed-language text: tick Also read English
- **Input:** JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, screenshots pasted with Ctrl+V, and scanned PDFs (up to 30 pages, rendered at 200 DPI)
- **Download:** The engine and the language data, a few megabytes each, fetched once from jsDelivr and cached by the browser
- **Output:** Plain text you can copy or save as .txt, with Tesseract's confidence score per image

## Questions

### Is my image uploaded?

No. Text recognition runs in this tab with Tesseract compiled to WebAssembly. The only downloads are the engine and the language data (from the jsDelivr CDN, cached after the first time); your image is never part of any request.

### Will the text work in Word and WhatsApp?

Yes. The output is Unicode Devanagari, the standard used by every modern app and the Mangal and Nirmala UI fonts. It is not Krutidev; if you need Krutidev, use a Unicode-to-Krutidev converter afterwards.

### Why are some matras or conjuncts wrong?

Devanagari has many combined letters, and small or blurry text loses the fine strokes. Use a sharper image, larger text, or crop closer. Proofread half-letters (आधे अक्षर) and nukta letters, which are the most common misreads.

### Can it read Marathi, Nepali or Sanskrit?

Yes, they use Devanagari too. Pick Marathi, Nepali or Sanskrit from the language list so the right dictionary is used.

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