Extract text from an image

What is OCR?

Optical Character Recognition turns pictures of text — screenshots, scanned pages, photos of documents — back into selectable, editable characters you can search and copy.

Why run OCR in your browser?

Uploading sensitive documents to an online OCR service means handing over their contents. Here the Tesseract engine runs on your own device, so nothing ever leaves your computer.

Tips for better accuracy

Use the sharpest, highest-contrast image you have, pick the correct language, and crop out heavy background clutter. Clean scans and screenshots read far better than skewed phone photos.

How to image to text (ocr)

1. Choose the language of the text in your image.
2. Drop an image or screenshot into the zone above.
3. Wait while the OCR model loads and reads the image — progress is shown.
4. Copy the recognised text or download it as a .txt file.