PNG to HOCR Converter

Convert PNG to HOCR online. We read the text inside your PNG, so what you download can be searched and copied from — not just looked at.

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What is PNG ?

PNG, or Portable Network Graphics, is a raster graphics file format that supports lossless data compression. It is widely used for web images due to its ability to maintain high quality while allowing for transparency and a broad color palette.

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What is HOCR ?

HOCR is a file format used to represent the results of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in a structured manner. It encodes text and layout information in an HTML-like format, allowing for easy visualization and processing of recognized text from scanned documents.

HOCR format  ▶

How to Convert PNG to HOCR in Just a Few Steps

  1. Upload your PNG file
    Drag and drop your PNG file, click 'Select Files' to upload from your device, or import directly from Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, or paste a URL.
  2. Choose HOCR as output format
    The converter is preset to HOCR, but you can select any other output format before converting.
  3. Adjust settings (optional)
    If you like, tweak output options such as resolution, quality, or compression before converting.
  4. Convert the file
    Click the 'Convert' button. The conversion takes only a few seconds.
  5. Download your converted file
    Download the converted file to your device, or save it directly to Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive.

Why Convert PNG to HOCR file?

hOCR is a format that stores the results of text recognition as structured HTML, including the recognized words along with their positions on the page. Converting PNG to hOCR runs text recognition on your image and produces this detailed output, useful for developers and document-processing systems that need both the text and its layout.

Unlike plain text output, hOCR keeps track of where each word sits, which is valuable for rebuilding documents, highlighting text on a scan, or feeding into further processing. This is aimed at technical and document-automation workflows rather than everyday use. Accuracy depends on how clear the text in the image is. For simply extracting readable text, plain text output is simpler, but when position data is needed, hOCR provides it.

Start converting PNG to HOCR now — it’s fast, safe, and completely online!

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