Convert PDF and photo files to text


               

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You can convert image files to text with Google Drive.

Step 1: Prepare the file

For the best results, use these tips:

  • Format: You can convert PDFs (multipage documents) or photo files (.jpeg, .png and .gif)
  • File size: The file should be 2 MB or smaller.
  • Resolution: Text should be at least 10 pixels high.
  • Orientation: Documents must be right-side up. If your image faces the wrong way, rotate it before you upload it to Google Drive.
  • Languages: Google Drive detects the language of the document. Learn more about supported languages
  • Font and character set: Use common fonts, such as Arial or Times New Roman.
  • Image quality: Use sharp images with even lighting and clear contrasts.

Step 2: Convert the file

  1. On your computer, go to Google Drive.
  2. Right click a file.
  3. Click Open with and then Google Docs.
  4. The image file is converted, but the format might not transfer:
    • Bold, italics, font size, font type, and line breaks are likely to be retained.
    • Lists, tables, columns, footnotes, and endnotes are not likely to be detected.
Supported languages
  • Acehnese
  • Acholi
  • Adangme
  • Afrikaans
  • Akan
  • Albanian
  • Algonquian
  • Amharic
  • Ancient Greek
  • Arabic (Modern Standard)
  • Araucanian/Mapuche
  • Armenian
  • Assamese
  • Asturian
  • Athabaskan
  • Aymara
  • Azerbaijani
  • Azerbaijani (Cyrillic; old orthography)
  • Balinese
  • Bambara
  • Bantu
  • Bashkir
  • Basque
  • Batak
  • Belarusian
  • Bemba
  • Bengali
  • Bikol
  • Bislama
  • Bosnian
  • Breton
  • Bulgarian
  • Burmese
  • Catalan
  • Cebuano
  • Chechen
  • Cherokee
  • Chinese (Mandarin; Hong Kong)
  • Chinese (Simplified; Mandarin)
  • Chinese (Traditional; Mandarin)
  • Choctaw
  • Chuvash
  • Cree
  • Creek
  • Crimean Tatar
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Dakota
  • Danish
  • Dhivehi
  • Duala
  • Dutch
  • Dzongkha
  • Efik
  • English (American)
  • English (British)
  • Esperanto
  • Estonian
  • Ewe
  • Faroese
  • Fijian
  • Filipino
  • Finnish
  • Fon
  • French (Canadian)
  • French (European)
  • Fulah
  • Ga
  • Galician
  • Ganda
  • Gayo
  • Georgian
  • German
  • Gilbertese
  • Gothic
  • Greek
  • Guarani
  • Gujarati
  • Haitian Creole
  • Hausa
  • Hawaiian
  • Hebrew
  • Herero
  • Hiligaynon
    Hindi
  • Hungarian
  • Iban
  • Icelandic
  • Igbo
  • Ilocano
  • Indonesian
  • Irish
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Javanese
  • Kabyle
  • Kachin
  • Kalaallisut
  • Kamba
  • Kannada
  • Kanuri
  • Kara-Kalpak
  • Kazakh
  • Khasi
  • Khmer
  • Kikuyu
  • Kinyarwanda
  • Kirghiz
  • Komi
  • Kongo
  • Korean
  • Kosraean
  • Kuanyama
  • Lao
  • Latin
  • Latvian
  • Lingala
  • Lithuanian
  • Low German
  • Lozi
  • Luba-Katanga
  • Luo
  • Macedonian
  • Madurese
  • Malagasy
  • Malay
  • Malayalam
  • Maltese
  • Mandingo
  • Manx
  • Maori
  • Marathi
  • Marshallese
  • Mende
  • Middle English
  • Middle High German
  • Minangkabau
  • Mohawk
  • Mongo
  • Mongolian
  • Nahuatl
  • Navajo
  • Ndonga
  • Nepali
  • Niuean
  • North Ndebele
  • Northern Sotho
  • Norwegian (Bokmål)
  • Nyanja
  • Nyankole
  • Nyasa Tonga
  • Nzima
  • Occitan
  • Ojibwa
  • Old English
  • Old French
  • Old High German
  • Old Norse
  • Old Provencal
  • Oriya
  • Ossetic
  • Pampanga
  • Pangasinan
  • Papiamento
  • Pashto
  • Persian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese (Brazilian)
  • Portuguese (European)
  • Punjabi (Gurmukhi)
  • Quechua
  • Romanian
  • Romansh
  • Romany
  • Rundi
  • Russian
  • Russian (Old Orthography)
  • Sakha
  • Samoan
  • Sango
  • Sanskrit
  • Scots
  • Scottish Gaelic
  • Serbian (Cyrillic)
  • Serbian (Latin)
  • Shona
  • Sinhala
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Songhai
  • Southern Sotho
  • Spanish (European)
  • Spanish (Latin American)
  • Sundanese
  • Swahili
  • Swati
  • Swedish
  • Tahitian
  • Tajik
  • Tamil
  • Tatar
  • Telugu
  • Temne
  • Thai
  • Tibetan
  • Tigrinya
  • Tongan
  • Tsonga
  • Tswana
  • Turkish
  • Turkmen
  • Udmurt Ukrainian
  • Urdu
  • Uzbek
  • Uzbek (Cyrillic; old orthography)
  • Venda
  • Vietnamese
  • Votic
  • Welsh
  • Western Frisian
  • Wolof
  • Xhosa
  • Yiddish
  • Yoruba
  • Zapotec
  • Zulu
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