Image to Text (OCR)

Pull editable text out of photos, screenshots and scans. The recognition runs in your browser — your image is never uploaded.

Choose an image or drag & drop

How to extract text from an image

  1. Upload an image or screenshot.
  2. Pick the language.
  3. Click Extract Text, then copy or download the result.

Private, browser-based OCR

This tool uses tesseract.js, a WebAssembly OCR engine that runs locally. The language model downloads once and is cached.

Does OCR work offline?
After the first download, yes.
What languages are supported?
English and many more.

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