Image to Text (OCR)

Get editable text out of screenshots, photos of documents and scanned pages. Drop or paste an image and OCR reads it right in your browser, so the image is never uploaded.

Drop images or screenshots here

PNG, JPG, WebP, HEIC… or paste with Ctrl+V / ⌘V · nothing is uploaded

Text is read on your device. Your images are never uploaded.

Copying text out of an image

Text is recognised with Tesseract, a well-established open-source OCR engine compiled to run inside your browser. Drop a screenshot, a photo of a document, a receipt or a scan – or just paste an image with Ctrl+V or ⌘V – and the text appears in an editable box, ready to correct, copy or save as a .txt file. There are 20 languages to pick from, including Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and Hindi. The engine and language data download once and are cached by your browser, after which recognition starts almost immediately. Images are processed entirely on your device and never uploaded, so it's safe for IDs, invoices, private messages and confidential paperwork. It's free, handles batches and needs no account.

  1. 1

    Choose the language of the text, then drop images onto the box above or paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V / ⌘V.

  2. 2

    Give it a moment to read the text – the first run downloads the OCR engine, which is then cached.

  3. 3

    Fix anything that was misread, then copy the text or download it as a .txt file.

What makes this Image to Text (OCR) handy

Paste screenshots

Paste straight from the clipboard – no need to save the image first.

20 languages

Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Devanagari, Chinese, Japanese and Korean scripts.

Editable results

Correct any misread characters before you copy or download.

Nothing uploaded

Recognition runs on your device, so private images stay private.

What people use the Image to Text (OCR) for

Grab text from screenshots

Copy words from images, videos and apps that won't let you select them.

Digitise printed pages

Turn photos of letters, book pages and handouts into editable text.

Read receipts and invoices

Pull totals and details from receipts for expenses and bookkeeping.

Translate text in pictures

Extract foreign-language text, then paste it into a translator.

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Private text tools that run in your browser

Count words, work out reading time, compare two drafts and pull text from images – all on your own device. Nothing you paste or drop is uploaded or stored, so they're fine for unpublished articles, contracts and confidential notes.

Questions & answers

How accurate is the text recognition?

Clear, high-contrast text such as screenshots and scanned documents usually comes out almost perfect. Blurry photos, handwriting and fancy fonts are harder, so check the result and fix anything misread.

Do my images get uploaded for OCR?

No. The OCR engine runs in your browser, so images stay on your device. Only the engine and language data are downloaded – once, the first time you use a language.

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