JPG to Text
Free JPG OCR in your browser. No account, no email.
Drop an image to read it
JPG, JPEG — up to 3 MB. Your file is read on our servers in Frankfurt and deleted within the hour.
VisionParse converts JPG images to editable text free in your browser, with no account required.
We measured the same invoice at JPEG quality 95, 75, 50, 30, 15 and 5. Character accuracy stayed at 100% at every setting, including a 5.8 KB file. Image resolution, not compression, is what changes JPG accuracy.
What this tool does, in numbers.
- ACCURACY
JPEG quality 5 read at the same 100% accuracy as JPEG quality 95 in our measurement.
- LIMIT
A 300-pixel-wide JPG read at 56.8% accuracy, against 100% at 550 pixels wide.
- SPEED
VisionParse read a JPG invoice in 0.30 seconds on an 8-vCPU server.
- LANGUAGES
VisionParse recognises 161 languages in JPG files, including Arabic, Sinhala and Tamil.
- ACCESS
The JPG to text tool requires no account, no email address and no payment card.
- RETENTION
VisionParse deletes free-tool JPG files one hour after conversion.
Where the 100% at quality 5 comes from.
Every figure on this page traces to a dated run on hardware we name. Nothing here is a vendor estimate.
Measured 2026-08-01
- Claim
- JPEG compression does not degrade recognition: quality 95 and quality 5 both read at 100%.
- Method
- VisionParse standard recognition tier, single-threaded. Full methodology.
- Sample
- One synthetic invoice encoded at JPEG quality 95, 75, 50, 30, 15 and 5 — 37.2 KB down to 5.8 KB — each read through the production pipeline and scored against published ground truth.
- Measured
2026-08-01on Contabo Cloud VPS 8 — 8 vCPU AMD EPYC, 24 GB RAM, Ubuntu 24.04.4- Limitations
- This document is high-contrast printed text, the case JPEG handles most gracefully. Photographs with soft focus or shadow may behave differently. A single synthetic document per variant is a small sample and is not a substitute for a corpus. These figures describe format behaviour, not general accuracy. A 500-document corpus run is scheduled and will supersede them.
- Contact
- VisionParse@senithu.lk
What this tool gets wrong
Heavy JPEG compression did not hurt accuracy. From quality 95 down to quality 5 — a 6.4× reduction in file size — character accuracy stayed at 100%. Compressing a JPG to save upload time costs nothing in recognition on high-contrast text.
Resizing a JPG does hurt, and sharply. The same image at 300 pixels wide read at 56.8%. If you need a smaller file, compress it harder rather than scaling it down.
Arabic-Indic numerals come back wrong. VisionParse reads Arabic script cleanly on the free tier, but ١٢٣ returned as 1#|. Numeric Arabic documents should use the AI extraction tier instead.
Three steps, no account.
Drop your JPG
Drag a photo or scan onto the workbench. Nothing leaves your device until you drop it.
We clean it up
Deskew, denoise and contrast normalisation run before recognition, which matters more for phone photos than for scans.
Take the text
Text appears with a confidence score. Copy it or download a .txt; the file is deleted within the hour.
What this tool accepts.
| Property | Free tool |
|---|---|
| Input formats | JPG, JPEG |
| Output | Plain text, UTF-8 |
| Compression tolerance | 100% accuracy tested down to JPEG quality 5 |
| Recommended minimum width | 550 px |
| Maximum file size | 3 MB |
| Rate limit | 5 files per hour, per IP address |
| Languages | 161 |
| File retention | Deleted 1 hour after conversion |
| Processing location | Frankfurt, Germany |
When to use the API instead.
This page converts one file now. To convert files from your own software, the same engine runs over HTTP from Starter upward.
# same engine, from your code curl -X POST https://api.visionparse.app/v1/ocr \ -H "x-api-key: $VISIONPARSE_KEY" \ -F "file=@image.jpg" → 202 { "jobId": "c0df8e2c…" }
Use the API when
You convert more than a handful of files, convert on a schedule, or need results inside another system. Batch, webhooks and bounding boxes are API-only.
Frequently asked
Does JPEG compression reduce OCR accuracy?
Not in our measurement. We tested the same invoice at JPEG quality 95, 75, 50, 30, 15 and 5, and character accuracy stayed at 100% at every setting — including a 5.8 KB file.
My JPG is too large to upload. What should I do?
Compress it rather than resizing it. Lowering JPEG quality cost nothing in accuracy in our tests, while scaling the image down to 300 pixels wide dropped accuracy to 56.8%.
What resolution should I photograph a document at?
Aim for at least 550 pixels across the text area. Accuracy was 100% at 550 px and above, 98.4% at 400 px, and 56.8% at 300 px.
Is the JPG to text tool free?
Yes — 5 files an hour with no account, no email and no card. A free account raises the allowance to 100 pages a month.
Do you keep my JPG?
Free-tool files are deleted one hour after conversion. Account uploads are deleted after 30 days, and no customer file is ever used to train models.