There are not many apps for Android devices that help you extract text from images. Apps available on Play Store either do not work or give incorrect results after scanning the images. To solve this problem, we have come up with the best apps that can convert images to text absolutely free.

Text Scanner app is definitely a must have app which is fastest and has highest accuracy among all other apps available on play store. It converts the image to text instantly after clicking to take the photo. Text Scanner comes with simple user interface, easy to use and provides you with highest accuracy of texts extracted from images. More importantly, it supports more than 50 languages and photos from your gallery.

Download: Peace Text Scanner [OCR]

If you deal with a lot of PDF documents in English, this app is for you. Document Scanner can convert images to PDF and vice versa. With Document Scanner app, we can also extract text after converting an image to a PDF document. This app supports text over images, which allows you to fill/edit a form that you just scanned. You can also highlight sections and add comments or merge multiple documents into one along with a watermark to save them in the cloud.