Hebrew OCR: turn printed Hebrew in an image into text

How to extract Hebrew text from an image

1. Choose the file. A phone photo, a scanned page, a screenshot or page 1 of a PDF, as JPG, PNG, WEBP or HEIC, up to 5 MB.
2. Press Get the text. The page is read as a whole, and the Hebrew appears as text within seconds.
3. Copy it or save it. Copy the Hebrew with one click, or download it as a .txt file or a Word document.

Right to left, with English and numbers in between

Hebrew runs right to left, but the digits, dates and English words inside a Hebrew line run left to right. The text comes back in the order a Hebrew reader reads it, with a phone number, an ID number or a Latin product name kept in its place inside the line.

Printed Hebrew

Letters, contracts, forms, certificates, book pages and screenshots of messages

Final letters

ך, ם, ן, ף and ץ come back as the final forms printed at the end of a word

Tables

A label column and a value column, as on a transcript or a registry extract, come back as a table in the Word file

Dates and numbers

Stay exactly as printed, Western digits included

Stamps

An office stamp or seal stays in place in the Word file

Free Hebrew OCR options

Hebrew is missing from some built in tools. Apple's Live Text language list for iPhone and iPad, checked on November 5, 2026, has no Hebrew[1], so copying Hebrew from a photo on an iPhone does not work that way.

Translate a Hebrew PDF to English

The free tool returns the text in Hebrew. For English, upload the document to the LoreAI app. It recognizes Hebrew by itself, translates into English or any of 105 languages, and returns an editable Word file with headings, lists and tables in the original order. Hebrew names are written in Latin letters.

A ketubah, a teudat zehut, a diploma or a bank letter of several pages goes in as one PDF and comes out as one Word file. Your first document is free, up to 3 pages. LoreAI is not a certified translation service. When an authority needs a certified translation, a translator reviews the Word draft and signs the certificate.

How to photograph a Hebrew page

• Hold the phone straight above the page, so the lines stay level.
• Fill the frame with the page. Google asks for text at least 10 pixels high for its own converter[2].
• Light the page evenly. Small letters such as ו and י need sharp detail.
• Rotate the image upright before you upload it[2].

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