Extract text from images in seconds
Turn photos, scans and screenshots into editable text using AI OCR. Best on printed text, ready for copy, search or export.
- AI text extraction
- Printed text focus
- Layout preserved
- TXT · DOCX · PDF
Works with JPG, PNG, WEBP · Up to 25 MB per file
INVOICE #4823-A Picnie Labs, Inc. 221 Market Street, San Francisco Item Qty Total AI OCR - Pro plan 1 $29.00 Bulk image credits 500 $50.00 Webhook overage 3 $0.30 Subtotal $79.30 Tax (8.5%) $6.74 ───────────────────────────────────── Total $86.04
Trusted by teams turning images into searchable text
From one-off receipts and ID cards to millions of pages flowing through document pipelines - Picnie OCR is the quiet engine behind modern paperwork.
“We digitized fifteen years of archived invoices in a weekend. Layout preservation alone saved us months of cleanup.”
“Handwritten field notes turn into clean text we can actually search. It feels like cheating.”
“The OCR API beats our previous pipeline on accents and Asian scripts. Drop-in replacement, half the cost.”
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See results before you try
Real-world OCR across receipts, documents, whiteboards, business cards, handwriting and screenshots - clean, structured, ready to use.
Cafe Mira Latte ............ $4.80 Croissant ........ $3.20 Tax ............. $0.64 Total ........... $8.64
AGREEMENT Effective Date: 12 Jan 2026 Parties: Picnie & Acme Co. Section 2 - Scope of Work Provider shall deliver…
Q1 Roadmap • Ship OCR API • Hindi + JA models • Batch UI v2 • Marketing site
Maya Iyer Director, Product [email protected] +1 (415) 555-0142 northgoods.io
June 14, 2026 Saw migration of cranes near Devanahalli lake. ~40 birds, low cloud Coords 13.24N 77.71E
Error 502 Service unavailable Stack: api/handler.ts:42 Trace ID: a1f9-7c… Retry after 30s
Sample outputs shown. Picnie processes your files privately and never trains on them.
Why use Picnie image-to-text
Built for accuracy and the everyday workflows of operations, research, accounting and accessibility teams.
Multilingual detection
Recognizes text across many scripts; use the language parameter to translate or rewrite the output.
Printed text focus
Optimized for printed documents, receipts and screenshots. Handwriting recognition is best-effort and accuracy varies with legibility.
Layout preserved
Columns, tables and headings stay intact in DOCX and PDF exports.
Batch processing
Drop hundreds of pages. We process them in parallel.
Searchable PDFs
Export OCR’d PDFs with a hidden text layer for full-text search.
Fast & private
Most pages finish in under two seconds. Files auto-deleted after one hour.
How to convert image to text
Four steps. Under five seconds. Zero setup.
Upload image
JPG, PNG or WEBP up to 25 MB.
AI detects text
Lines, words and layout in milliseconds.
Preview & edit
Review, correct and choose a language.
Download as TXT/DOCX/PDF
Or copy straight to clipboard.
Supported inputs
Export options
- Plain TXT & Markdown
- DOCX with formatting
- Searchable PDF (hidden text layer)
Private by default
Files are processed in-region and auto-deleted after one hour. We never train models on customer uploads.
Built for every workflow
From a single receipt to a million-page archive, Picnie OCR fits any team.
Students
Digitize notes & textbooks
Accounting
Receipts & invoices
Legal
Contracts & filings
Researchers
Archives & field notes
Accessibility
Text-to-speech ready
Developers
OCR via REST API
Do more after extracting text
Chain Picnie tools into a full document workflow - no exports between steps.
Automate text extraction
Run OCR on images and PDFs programmatically with Picnie APIs. Built for production with webhooks, batch processing and predictable latency.
- Batch processing
- REST API
- Sub-2s per page
- Webhooks & retries
curl -X POST https://picnie.com/api/v1/transcribe-image \
-H "Authorization: YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"project_id": 1867,
"image_url": "https://picnie.com/data/raw_images/demo_bg1.jpg",
"method": "Original",
"language": "Original"
}'Frequently asked questions
Turn any image into text
in seconds.
Upload once. Copy, export or automate. No signup required.