Add Text to Image Online Free: Photo Text Editor & OCR

The Canvas Matches Your Photo, Not the Other Way Around

Most online text editors crop your photo into a fixed square. Here the canvas adopts your photo’s exact shape the moment you upload it, so nothing is cut off, and you can still switch to any social preset or type a custom size. Existing text, logos and shapes rescale with the canvas, so changing from a post to a story keeps your layout intact. Exports go up to 3× the canvas size for crisp results on retina screens.

Resize the finished image to exact dimensionsCompress the export for faster pages

Text Styling Far Beyond a Caption Box

Each text layer is fully editable. Choose from sans, display, serif, script, mono and system fonts with a live preview of every family, set the weight, size, letter spacing and line height, and wrap text to a fixed box by dragging its side handles. Colour text with a solid fill or a two-colour gradient, add an outline, a drop shadow with its own offset and colour, a neon glow, or a rounded highlight box behind each line. One click applies a ready-made look such as Meme, Neon, Retro, Sticker, Label, Comic or Typewriter, and everything can be undone and redone with Ctrl+Z.

Text Behind the Subject: The Viral Thumbnail Effect

Upload a photo and press Put text behind subject. An AI cut-out model runs on your device, isolates the person or object, and draws it back on top of your text so the headline appears to sit between the subject and the background. It is the look used on YouTube thumbnails, posters and Reels covers, and because the model runs locally your photo is never uploaded. Darken the photo with the overlay slider first to make light text readable.

Remove a background completelyMake a meme with top and bottom captions

Templates, Snapping and Shortcuts That Save Time

Start from a template (meme caption, quote card, YouTube thumbnail, sale banner, birthday, motivation poster, watermark or event poster) and replace the words. Layers snap to the canvas centre and edges with pink guide lines, you can align to any edge, and the layer panel lets you rename, hide, lock, reorder and duplicate. Paste or drop an image to use it as the background or a logo.

Watermark Your Photos With Repeating Text

Switch on Watermark pattern for any text layer and it tiles diagonally across the whole picture at the opacity and spacing you choose, which is the quickest way to brand or protect a photo. Combine it with a logo layer for a branded watermark, then export at full resolution.

Prefer a dedicated tool? Try the image watermark maker

Image to Text: Free OCR in 17 Languages

Turn any picture into text. Upload, drop or paste (Ctrl+V) a photo, scan or screenshot, choose one or more languages, and click Extract text. An optional enhance step sharpens small or faint text first, and a layout mode (auto, block, single line or sparse) helps with receipts, signs and scattered text. You get an editable result with a confidence score and a count of uncertain words, one-click clean-ups (join lines, fix spacing, change case), copy, a .txt download, or a button that places the text straight onto the design canvas. Recognition runs in your browser after the language model downloads once.