Upload a photo or scan with Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ) writing and get editable Punjabi text in seconds.
Ocr4you reads Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ) text from photos, screenshots and scanned pages and turns it into real, editable Unicode text. Upload a JPG, PNG, WEBP, TIFF or BMP file, click Extract Text, and a few seconds later you can copy the Punjabi text or download it as a TXT file. You do not need to install a Punjabi keyboard or type anything again. People search for this as "Punjabi image to text", "Punjabi OCR" or "ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਫੋਟੋ ਤੋਂ ਟੈਕਸਟ", and this page does exactly that.
Punjabi is read and written by millions of people in Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Canada, the UK and other Punjabi communities. A huge amount of everyday paperwork in Punjabi still exists only on paper or as a picture: Gurbani and Gutka Sahib pages, Punjabi newspapers, jamabandi land records, school books and letters. Retyping these by hand is slow and full of mistakes, especially when you have to find each Gurmukhi letter on a phone keyboard. With OCR you photograph the page once and get text you can edit, translate, search, quote in an assignment or paste into a WhatsApp message.
Gurmukhi uses a headline like Devanagari, plus special signs such as tippi (ੰ), bindi (ਂ) and addak (ੱ) that change the sound of a word. Missing an addak changes the meaning, so the OCR keeps these small marks. Text is returned in Gurmukhi Unicode that works in any app.
The engine behind Ocr4you is an AI document text model that detects the language automatically, so you do not have to pick Punjabi from a list. It also handles pages that mix Punjabi with English words, numbers, dates and phone numbers, which is very common in forms, bills and notices.
Every visitor gets free OCR pages to start, with no sign-up needed, and you can buy more pages from the pricing page if you process a lot of Punjabi documents. Uploaded images are used only to extract the text and are not shared or published. Your result is shown only to you in your browser session.
Yes. Ocr4you gives free OCR pages to every visitor without sign-up. Upload your Punjabi image, click Extract Text and copy the result.
Yes. The output is standard Unicode Punjabi (Gurmukhi script), so it works in Word, Google Docs, WhatsApp, email and any website.
No. The OCR detects Punjabi automatically, and it also reads English words and numbers mixed into the same page.
Neat handwriting in Punjabi often works, but printed text gives the best accuracy. For handwriting, use a sharp photo and try our handwriting to text page.
JPG, JPEG, PNG, WEBP, TIFF and BMP images up to 20 MB each. For PDFs use the Scanned PDF to Text tool.