Upload a photo or scan with Urdu (اردو) writing and get editable Urdu text in seconds.
Ocr4you reads Urdu (اردو) 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 Urdu text or download it as a TXT file. You do not need to install a Urdu keyboard or type anything again. People search for this as "Urdu image to text", "Urdu OCR" or "اردو تصویر سے متن", and this page does exactly that.
Urdu is read and written by millions of people in India, Pakistan and Urdu readers worldwide. A huge amount of everyday paperwork in Urdu still exists only on paper or as a picture: Urdu newspapers, poetry (shayari) books, madrasa notes, court papers and old letters. Retyping these by hand is slow and full of mistakes, especially when you have to find each Perso-Arabic (Nastaliq) 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.
Urdu is written right to left, usually in the flowing Nastaliq style where letters slope down and stack on each other. This is one of the hardest scripts for OCR. Our AI engine reads the full word shape and returns proper right-to-left Unicode text, so when you paste it into Word it keeps the correct direction.
The engine behind Ocr4you is an AI document text model that detects the language automatically, so you do not have to pick Urdu from a list. It also handles pages that mix Urdu 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 Urdu 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 Urdu image, click Extract Text and copy the result.
Yes. The output is standard Unicode Urdu (Perso-Arabic (Nastaliq) script), so it works in Word, Google Docs, WhatsApp, email and any website.
No. The OCR detects Urdu automatically, and it also reads English words and numbers mixed into the same page.
Neat handwriting in Urdu 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.