French OCR — Extract French Text from Images
Extract text from images with OCR directly in your browser: JPG, PNG, WebP and BMP in 12 recognition languages.
Processed entirely in your browser — nothing you enter here is ever uploaded.
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About this tool
This page opens the image-to-text tool with French preselected — drop an image and run recognition. The French model reads all the diacritics that make or break French text: é, è, ê, ë, à, ç, œ and the rest. An English-only model strips those accents, and in French that changes meaning — a (has) versus à (to), ou (or) versus où (where).
It works well on scanned letters, forms, book pages, menus and photographed signs. French typography uses thin spaces before punctuation like ; : ! ? — OCR output may normalize those spaces, so expect to tidy spacing slightly if you need typographically perfect text.
The recognition is fully local: your image never leaves the browser, and only the French traineddata model is downloaded once, then cached. Copy the extracted text or download it as a .txt file.
Example. A PNG recognized with the eng traineddata returns the transcript string from that Tesseract worker.
Limit. Recognition languages are the twelve codes eng, ukr, deu, fra, spa, ita, pol, por, nld, tur, ces, and ron, and the file must be PNG, JPEG, WebP, or BMP.