Screenshot or photo → editable Urdu

Convert Urdu Images to Editable Text

Choose a screenshot, photo or scanned page that contains Urdu. WriteUrdu reads the image in your browser and gives you editable Urdu text you can review, copy, clean or continue writing with.

Turn a screenshot or photo into Urdu text

Best with clear printed Urdu. Our current testing is strongest on simple Naskh-style text; Nastaliq and decorative layouts can need more corrections. Always check important names, numbers and punctuation.

Choose an image
Your image PNG, JPEG or WebP · up to 12 MB
The first conversion may take longer while your browser prepares Urdu image reading. This technology is called OCR (optical character recognition). Your selected image is not uploaded or saved by WriteUrdu.
Review before use

Which Urdu text works best? Clear printed text is the safest starting point. Current testing is strongest with simple Naskh-style Urdu. Nastaliq is more complex, so poetry images, newspapers, decorative fonts, handwriting, skewed photos and mixed English can need extra corrections.

How Urdu image to text works

The tool reads the writing inside your image and turns it into normal Urdu text you can select, edit, search and copy. The technology is often called Urdu OCR, but you do not need to know that term to use it.

Which font gives the best result?

Use a clear screenshot or scan with readable printed Urdu, strong contrast and enough resolution. Our current benchmark is strongest on Naskh-style printed text. Nastaliq can also be read, but its joined and sloping layout is more complex and may require more manual correction, especially in poetry, newspapers and heavily styled designs.

How to get a cleaner result

Crop the image around the Urdu text, keep the page straight, and avoid distant photos, blurred text, decorative backgrounds and heavy image compression. Clear dark text on a simple background is usually easier to read.

Why you should review the text

Image-to-text recognition can confuse similar letter shapes, dots, punctuation, numbers and mixed Urdu/English content. Treat the converted text as a fast editable starting point rather than a guarantee that every character is correct.

Continue with WriteUrdu

After conversion you can fix spacing and Urdu text direction or continue writing in WriteUrdu. The handoff uses session-only browser storage rather than putting your text in a URL.