Upload a photo or scan with Tamil (தமிழ்) writing and get editable Tamil text in seconds.
Ocr4you reads Tamil (தமிழ்) 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 Tamil text or download it as a TXT file. You do not need to install a Tamil keyboard or type anything again. People search for this as "Tamil image to text", "Tamil OCR" or "தமிழ் படத்திலிருந்து உரை", and this page does exactly that.
Tamil is read and written by millions of people in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Sri Lanka, Singapore and Malaysia. A huge amount of everyday paperwork in Tamil still exists only on paper or as a picture: Tamil Nadu government orders (G.O.), patta and chitta land papers, temple records, school books and literature. Retyping these by hand is slow and full of mistakes, especially when you have to find each Tamil 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.
Tamil has a compact alphabet but uses the pulli (dot) above consonants and several vowel signs that wrap around a letter, such as கொ and கௌ. Older printed books also use pre-reform letter shapes. Our OCR is trained on both modern and older printing so words come out in standard Unicode Tamil.
The engine behind Ocr4you is an AI document text model that detects the language automatically, so you do not have to pick Tamil from a list. It also handles pages that mix Tamil 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 Tamil 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 Tamil image, click Extract Text and copy the result.
Yes. The output is standard Unicode Tamil (Tamil script), so it works in Word, Google Docs, WhatsApp, email and any website.
No. The OCR detects Tamil automatically, and it also reads English words and numbers mixed into the same page.
Neat handwriting in Tamil 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.