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Image to Text (OCR)

Pull the text out of an image and copy it, right in your browser.

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Overview

Extracts readable, copyable text from an image, screenshot, or scanned page. Handy when you need the words out of a picture, a receipt, a slide, or a photo of a document. It runs in your browser, so the image is never uploaded.

How it works

This is optical character recognition (OCR). The tool uses the Tesseract engine compiled to WebAssembly so it can run directly in your browser. It locates regions of text in the image, recognizes the characters using a trained model, and assembles them into text you can copy. No image or text is sent to a server; the recognition happens on your device.

How to use it

  1. Upload or drag in an image that contains text (PNG, JPG, or WebP).
  2. Wait while the engine loads and scans the image.
  3. Review the extracted text in the output box.
  4. Copy the text, or edit it first if you need to clean up a few characters.

Examples

Screenshot to editable text

Paste in a screenshot of text you cannot select (an error message, an image-only PDF page) and pull out the words to reuse.

Printed document

Photograph a printed page and convert it into text you can search or paste into a document.

FAQ

Does my image get uploaded?
No. Recognition runs locally in your browser, so the image and the extracted text stay on your device.
Can it read handwriting?
It is built for printed and typed text. Handwriting, especially cursive, is much less reliable and may produce errors.
How can I improve accuracy?
Use a clear, high-contrast image where the text is sharp and upright. Straightening a tilted photo and cropping out clutter both help.
What languages are supported?
It works best with standard Latin-script text. Accuracy varies by language and by how clean the source image is.
Why are a few characters wrong?
OCR is an estimate based on shapes, so similar characters (such as 0 and O, or 1 and l) can be confused. A quick manual check fixes the occasional slip.

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