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Image to text (OCR)

Extract text from an image (JPG, PNG, screenshot, photo) with OCR that runs entirely in your browser — copy the recognized text. Free, private, no upload.

Drop an image, or choose one

PNG, JPG, WebP, and similar. Read on your device, never uploaded.

Text recognition runs entirely in your browser — your file is never uploaded.

Pull the text out of any image — a screenshot, a scanned page, a photo of a document — and copy it as editable text. Recognition runs entirely in your browser with open-source OCR, so your image is never uploaded.

How to extract text from an image

  1. Drop or choose an image (PNG, JPG, WebP, screenshot).
  2. Click Extract text — a progress bar shows recognition running on your device.
  3. Copy the recognized text.

The first run downloads the recognition engine (a few MB); after that it’s cached.

What reads well — and what doesn’t

OCR shines on clear, printed text: screenshots, scans, and straight photos of typed pages come through cleanly. It struggles with low resolution, heavy skew, decorative fonts, text over busy images, and it does not read handwriting. If a result is messy, a sharper, better-lit, straight-on image usually fixes it more than anything else.

Private by design

The recognition engine (Tesseract, compiled to WebAssembly) and its English language data are served from this site and run locally — your image is read on your device and never transmitted. Working with a scanned document instead of a single image? The scanned PDF to text tool does the same, page by page.

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Frequently asked questions

How accurate is the text recognition?
Very good on clear, printed text — a screenshot, a scanned document, or a straight photo of a page reads almost perfectly. Accuracy drops with low resolution, skew, unusual fonts, busy backgrounds, or handwriting (which it does not read). Higher-resolution, well-lit, straight-on images give the best results.
Is my image uploaded to a server?
No. The recognition engine (Tesseract) runs in your browser as WebAssembly, so your image is read entirely on your device and never transmitted. That matters for screenshots and documents — a lot of "free OCR" sites upload your image to process it.
Why does the first run take a few seconds?
It downloads the recognition engine and the English language data (a few megabytes) the first time. After that they're cached, so subsequent images are faster. The actual recognition also takes a moment — OCR is real computation, done locally.
What languages does it support?
This tool reads English. Tesseract supports many languages, but each needs its own data file; English is included here. For accented Latin text it usually still does well, but non-Latin scripts need their specific language data.
Can it read handwriting?
No. OCR is built for printed and typed text. Handwriting recognition is a different, much harder problem that this tool does not attempt — expect poor results if you try.

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