Document digitization has an important role in helping the company’s activities be more efficient, such as detecting text in invoice document images using optical character recognition (OCR). However, writing in images has many problems, especially tediously saved documents that can cause noise or interference in the picture, resulting in difficultly recognized writing. Our research aims to build an autoencoder for denoising text images and evaluate the OCR’s performance in converting the denoised image into text. The first step in the research is to test the OCR characteristics on the original text image and the text image given Gaussian noise. The next step is to build the optimal autoencoder model for denoising by studying the effect of dataset size and optimizer type. The last step is to test the OCR performance on the denoised text image produced by the optimum autoencoder model. The test results show that datasetsize affects denoising performance and OCR performance. From several autoencoder models compared, the autoencoder with dataset size =40 has the optimum performance, where the MSE values of the model for train and validation are 1277 and 1385, respectively. With images denoised from the optimum model, the OCR performance in converting images into text is 100%.