Want advanced Google Workspace features for your business?
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
- On your computer, go to Google Drive.
- Right click a file.
- Click Open with
Google Docs.
- 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.
Google Docs.- 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
