German OCR — Extract German 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 German preselected — drop a scan or photo and press the button. The German model correctly recognizes the umlauts ä, ö, ü and the sharp s (ß), which plain English OCR replaces with a, o, u or B and quietly corrupts the text.
German is famous for long compound words like Grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeit — the model handles them well because it reads letter shapes rather than dictionary entries, but sharp input matters: at low resolution the many tall letters of a compound start merging. Scans at 300 DPI give the best results for German documents, invoices and letters.
Everything runs locally: your document is never uploaded, only the German language model is fetched once and cached by the browser. Copy the result or save it as .txt when recognition completes.
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.