Free tool
Telugu image to text, read on your device.
Pattadar passbooks, marksheets, government orders, certificates and book pages in తెలుగు, read in your browser and given back as text you can paste, search or translate. English 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 Telugu reads
- Telugu conjuncts are written as a small subscript form (ఒత్తు) under or beside the base letter: క్ష, స్త్ర, ద్ద. Those subscripts are small, so a low-resolution scan loses them and the word comes out one letter short.
- Many letters differ only by a small stroke: ద and ధ, బ and భ, ప and ఫ, వ and న. The reader's dictionary helps with common words; check names and place names, where it can't.
- The vowel signs sit above and beside the letter (the talakattu ా, the loops of ి and ీ). A cut-off top margin or a shadow across the top of a line loses them.
- Telugu documents print numbers as 0–9, so the reader reads English alongside and dates, amounts and survey numbers come through cleanly.
Telugu documents people bring
- Pattadar passbooks, 1-B and adangal copies from Dharani and Meebhoomi, to read survey numbers and extents.
- SSC and Intermediate marksheets and transfer certificates from the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana boards.
- Government orders (GOs) and circulars from AP and Telangana departments, to search a clause or translate.
- Caste, income and residence certificates from MeeSeva, and ration cards.
- Pages of Telugu books, newspapers and study notes.
Getting a better read
- Give the reader sharp, large letters: scan at 300 DPI or zoom the phone until a line of text fills the width. The subscripts are what get lost first.
- Choose Telugu on its own; English is read with it automatically. Kannada looks similar but is a different model, so pick the one the page is actually in.
- Check names and numbers in a land record against the original. The reader flags that a scan was read from the picture; take it seriously for survey numbers.
- Handwriting isn't read reliably. The reader is trained on printed Telugu type.
Worth switching on alongside Telugu: Nothing; English comes along by itself. 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.