Image → editable Urdu

Urdu OCR — Image to Urdu Text

Choose a clear Urdu screenshot or printed image and extract editable Unicode text. The OCR runs in your browser so you can review, clean and continue writing without sending the image to a WriteUrdu OCR server.

Extract Urdu from an image

Best for clear screenshots and printed Urdu. OCR is probabilistic, so review important names, numbers and punctuation.

Choose an image

Source image PNG, JPEG or WebP · up to 12 MB

Choose an Urdu image

or drag and drop a screenshot, scan or photo here

The first OCR run downloads the Tesseract browser engine and Urdu language data from a pinned CDN. The selected image itself is not uploaded by WriteUrdu.

Editable OCR result Review before use

Accuracy note: clear screenshots and ordinary printed Urdu are the target for this first version. Complex Nastaliq layouts, handwriting, newspapers, skewed photos and mixed English may need more correction.

What Urdu OCR does

OCR means optical character recognition: software looks at pixels in an image and predicts the text they represent. This tool uses an Urdu recognition model in the browser and returns ordinary Unicode text that you can edit, search, copy and export.

Good inputs

Use a tightly cropped screenshot or scan with readable Urdu, strong contrast and enough resolution. Clear printed text generally gives OCR more information than a distant photo, decorative background or heavily compressed social image.

Why the result still needs review

Urdu OCR can confuse similar letter shapes, dots, punctuation and mixed-script content. Nastaliq also has complex joining and layout. Treat OCR as a fast starting point, not a guarantee that every character is correct.

Continue with WriteUrdu

After extraction you can send the result to the Urdu Text Cleaner & RTL Fixer or open it directly in the WriteUrdu editor. The handoff uses session-only browser storage rather than putting your text in a URL.

How to use Urdu OCR

Choose or drop a clear Urdu image.
Select Extract Urdu text.
Wait while the browser loads the OCR model and reads the image.
Review and correct the editable result.
Copy it, clean it, or continue in WriteUrdu.

Questions

Is this Urdu OCR free?

Yes. This version uses browser-side OCR and does not require a paid OCR account.

Does my image leave the browser?

WriteUrdu does not upload the selected image or OCR result to its own server for recognition. Static OCR code and language data are downloaded when needed from the configured CDN.

Does it recognize Nastaliq perfectly?

No. Complex Nastaliq, handwriting, newspaper layouts and poor-quality images remain difficult. The tool is intentionally positioned as an editable first pass.

Can I upload a PDF?

Not in this first version. Convert or capture the relevant page as a PNG, JPEG or WebP image and use that image here.

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