Free tool
Hindi image to text, read on your device.
Marksheets, notices, court orders, forms and book pages in हिन्दी, read in your browser and given back as text you can paste into WhatsApp, Word or a form. English words and numbers on the same page are read too.
The first time, your browser fetches the reader: about 9 MB, and 1 to 6 MB for each other language. After that, a page takes a second or two, even a tilted phone photo.
Runs in your browser. Your files are never uploaded.
The text appears here, ready to copy or fix.
Several files, or a whole form? Tell Sochen “Read this scanned rent agreement and tell me the notice period and the deposit” and it does every step, checks each against the notification, and still keeps your files on your device.
Try Sochen free →How Hindi reads
- Devanagari joins the letters of a word under one headline (शिरोरेखा). On a soft or low-resolution scan the headline merges neighbouring words, so the reader may run two words together. A sharper image fixes more of this than anything else.
- The vowel sign ि is written before the consonant it belongs to, and ु, ू, ृ sit below. The reader puts them in the right Unicode order, but a cut-off bottom margin loses the ones below the line.
- Conjuncts like क्ष, त्र, ज्ञ and half-letters (स्त, प्र) are single shapes on the page. Rare ones in old typefaces are the most common misreads; check technical and Sanskrit-heavy words.
- The nukta dot in ज़, फ़, क़, ड़ and ढ़ is tiny. It is often read as the plain letter, which changes the spelling but rarely the meaning.
- Most Hindi documents print numbers as 0–9, so the reader reads English alongside. Devanagari digits ०–९ (in older government texts) come through as Devanagari digits, not as 0–9.
Hindi documents people bring
- Marksheets and certificates from Hindi-medium boards (UP, MP, Bihar, Rajasthan), to type into a form or translate.
- Court orders, FIR copies and notices from district courts and police stations in Hindi-speaking states.
- Rent agreements, affidavits and sale deeds typed in Hindi, to search for a clause or paste into a draft.
- Government circulars, scheme notices and exam notifications, and screenshots of them forwarded on WhatsApp.
- Pages of Hindi books, newspapers and notes, to quote or to read aloud with a screen reader.
Getting a better read
- Choose Hindi on its own unless the page really mixes another script. Marathi, Nepali and Sanskrit share Devanagari, and adding them makes the reader hesitate between spellings.
- Scan at 300 DPI, or photograph the page flat in even light so the letters are at least 20 pixels tall. The reader straightens tilted lines, but it can't sharpen a blur.
- A PDF typed in an old font like Kruti Dev or Chanakya copies out as gibberish, because those fonts map English keys to Hindi shapes. Choose only Hindi and the reader reads the picture instead, giving real Unicode.
- Handwriting is not read reliably. The reader is trained on printed Devanagari; a neatly hand-filled form gives you a rough draft at best.
Worth switching on alongside Hindi: Nothing, unless the page has Marathi or Nepali as well. The reader takes up to three languages, and English is read with every Indian language automatically.
Scanned PDFs are read page by page, up to 30 pages at a time; a PDF with its own text layer is copied exactly, without reading the picture.